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OperationsCommander can be integrated with single sign-on services such as SAML.  OPS-COM will be the Service Provider (SP) and you, our client, will be the Identity Provider (IdP).

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Configuring SAML

Any required fields will be displayed in red letting you know they must be completed before you can save. 

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The fields have multiple states which are reflected by the color they are highlighted with. 

  1. Red fields are required to click save.
  2. Yellow fields are required to work but still allow empty or invalid values to be saved.
  3. Yellow fields can also indicate that a change has been made.


The Code field is what the user profile will match against when adding users to the new login source. However, only one login source code can be activated at a time.  Since OPS-COM can support a system where some users require SSO and some do not, there can be multiple login sources. For example, If no SSO is required the login source for each user would be OPSCOM.  If you use SAML then the Login Source could be called SAML, if you use LDAP the login source could be names LDAP. The source name is up to the Identity Provider except for OPSCOM. For more information about configuring Login Sources refer to this wiki article. 


Service Provider Fields

The Unique Identifier is the ID part of the external xml communication between OPSCOM and your SAML system. You, the Identity Provider provide it. It is supplied by your SAML system and it is what OPS-COM uses to match against our UniqueID field.

The Entity ID for Service Provider is the name that our system communicates with your SAML system. OPS-COM provides that. It also becomes part of the URL for the user portal 

The x509 certificate can be generated and added to the service provider.   You, the Identity Provider provide this.


Identity Provider Fields

These fields come from the system you are working with such as SAML when communicating with OPS-COM. For example, SAML should display its metadata under Federation → Show Metadata. 


Once the settings have been completed and saved you will have access to the MetaData, Synchronization and Translations tab. 

Metadata

The Metadata tab provides the XML that would be provided to the service provider

Sample XML File

The following is an example of a response from an external system to OPS-COM. In this case, it is a SimpleSAMLPhp service set up as the identity provider. At the bottom are several attributes within an saml:AttributeStatement tag. These are required for our system to match to a user within our system. The one field that matters in this attribute section is what is being used as the permanently unique identifier for a user. In this case it is "uid". Since "uid" is being sent back, then the setup for Identity Provider Fields should have "uid" as the Unique ID Field. If the unique ID is something else such as SAMaccountName, then that should be used for UniqueID. 

... DEV-2K8 - DEBUG: Saml2 Incoming User Array ( [uid] => Array ( [0] => 6ddf4027-3397-4e45-8628-0189f60fe91e ) [full name] => Array ( [0] => Sarah Knowles ) [email] => Array ( [0] => sknowles@tomahawk.ca ) ) []

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
        <samlp:Response xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol" xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion" ID="_aa1963115aa6490e728c7376f4c8849813bbb...">
          ...
          <saml:Assertion xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" ID="_9efd79bf6425983ee9176f3d33a99d1a9176180...">
            ...
            <saml:Subject>
              <saml:NameID SPNameQualifier="MinionOpsComStaff" Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient">_7a426e0be71f14c1f349db00d7d543b6f7dcb52baa</saml:NameID>
              <saml:SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">
                <saml:SubjectConfirmationData NotOnOrAfter="2021-08-24T16:00:41Z" Recipient="https://minion-3.dev.parkadmin.com/auth/saml2/MinionOpsComStaff/acs" InResponseTo="ONELOGIN_bb8a09203c888cf59af4c621a71cfa8f7559c016"/>
              </saml:SubjectConfirmation>
            </saml:Subject>
            <saml:Conditions NotBefore="2021-08-24T15:55:11Z" NotOnOrAfter="2021-08-24T16:00:41Z">
              <saml:AudienceRestriction>
                <saml:Audience>MinionOpsComStaff</saml:Audience>
              </saml:AudienceRestriction>
            </saml:Conditions>
            <saml:AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="2021-08-24T15:34:46Z" SessionNotOnOrAfter="2021-08-24T23:34:46Z" SessionIndex="_a7a68666092117d24aab8adecf1b0830622855b85...">
              <saml:AuthnContext>
                <saml:AuthnContextClassRef>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport</saml:AuthnContextClassRef>
              </saml:AuthnContext>
            </saml:AuthnStatement>


            <saml:AttributeStatement>
              <saml:Attribute Name="uid" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
                <saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">6ddf4027-3397-4e45-8628-0189f60fe91e</saml:AttributeValue>
              </saml:Attribute>
              <saml:Attribute Name="full name" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
                <saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">Sarah Knowles</saml:AttributeValue>
              </saml:Attribute>
              <saml:Attribute Name="email" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
                <saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">sknowles@tomahawk.ca</saml:AttributeValue>
              </saml:Attribute>
            </saml:AttributeStatement>


          </saml:Assertion>
        </samlp:Response>

Translations

Translations can be used to change the text displayed on your login button from the user side. We can create as many different translations as we have available on our system. For this example, we have English and French. 

Synchronization

The synchronization tab allows you to create users in OPS-COM when they login from SAML that do not already exist by mapping your user attributes to our system. This also lets you update existing users information in the system. In this example, any field that is mapped and has a value from your SSO side should get updated to the value from SAML. 

To begin, ensure that you enable Auto Create/Update User. Keep in mind that these are sample values from our test system and your SAML system may differ. 

After you have supplied the information in each field you can click Save Changes and your users will begin to be created/updated. If any of the fields supplied by you are incorrect then the information will be blank when the user logs in or  it will stay the same if the user already existed. 




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Support Agent Notes

Troubleshooting LDAP - 

When LDAP has connection issues (server temporarily offline / not setup properly etc) papertrail will get a log about it:

https://my.papertrailapp.com/systems/WEB-OC_WVU-NP/events?selected=1329931097278210058


  • It is required that the Login Sources are created first and then the accounts can be created on our system using the login source. Using SAML for example doesn't actually create the accounts for us and changes made on either system are not communicated between each other. 
  • If the client requires a certificate from us we need to know if a self-signed cert is enough or if they require a valid paid certificate. 


Troubleshooting Scheduled Task Issues

If you see the next fire time is in the past, look for errors in sentry. This means that the script died for some reason. Only Paul or Robin can resolve this likely as it requires stuff done in the DB. (reset the running flag or additionaly setup)


Troubleshooting SAML

Note, SAML doesn't work if the user isn't already imported into our system. Clients should use the API for User Push to set this up before SAML can work.

The following is an example of a response from an external system to OPS-COM. In this case, it is a SimpleSAMLPhp service set up as the identity provider. At the bottom are several attributes within an saml:AttributeStatement tag. These are required for our system to match to a user within our system. The one field that matters in this attribute section is what is being used as the permanently unique identifier for a user. In this case it is "uid". Since "uid" is being sent back, then the setup for Identity Provider Fields should have "uid" as the Unique ID Field. If the unique ID is something else such as SAMaccountName, then that should be used for UniqueID. When testing on preview, Papertrail will report the incoming attributes:

... DEV-2K8 - DEBUG: Saml2 Incoming User Array ( [uid] => Array ( [0] => 6ddf4027-3397-4e45-8628-0189f60fe91e ) [full name] => Array ( [0] => Sarah Knowles ) [email] => Array ( [0] => sknowles@tomahawk.ca ) ) []

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