Configure Azure AD SAML Authentication with Cloud Director

Owned by Daniel Judge
Last updated: 09 May 2023
4 min read

You can configure SAML authentication with your Zettagrid Cloud Director service to take advantage of using Azure AD Single Sign On. This guide outlines the step required to configure SAML Authentication. You will require administrator account access on both Cloud Director and Azure AD to complete this configuration.

Step 1.

Click on Administration, and navigate to Identity Providers > SAML

Step 2.

Click on configure

Step 3.

Enter an Entity ID; you may leave this blank or Enter a Company Name

Click ‘Regenerate’ Button to create a new refreshed certificate for SSO, then Click Save.

Return to Edit the SAML settings, and click on ‘Retrieve Metadata’

Save this file to your local drive, in order to upload to Azure AD for SSO Configuration.

 

Step 4.

Login to the Azure AD portal https://portal.azure.com using your Azure AD Administrator Account.

Navigate to ‘Azure Active Directory’

 

Navigate to ‘Enterprise Applications’

 

Click on ‘New Application’

Click on ‘Create your own application’. Enter the name of you new application and click ‘Create’

 

Click on ‘Assign Users and Groups’ to assign users that are assigned to the new SSO Application.

 

Next, click on ‘Set up single sign on’, then click on ‘SAML’

 

Here you can upload the metadata file that was retrieved from your Zettagrid Cloud Director account.

 

 

We then need to set the ‘Sign on URL’ that will be used for the Zettagrid Tenant URL. Click save when done. Use your Zettagrid Cloud Director Tenant URL for the correct zone.

 

Under the section ‘SAML Certificates', adjacent to ‘Federation Metadata XML’ click on ‘Download. This metadata file will be uploaded to the Zettagrid SAML configuration in your Cloud Director account.

 

Returning to Cloud Director Administration > Identity Providers > SAML. Edit your SAML configuration and enable ‘Use SAML’ Identity Provider'. Click the ‘Select Metadata XML File’ button and select the Federation Metadata XML file. Click Save.

We are almost done!

Now navigate to Administration > Access Control > Users(or Groups).

 

Click on ‘Import Users’. You will now see the source as SAML. In the window, enter all the names of the users(or groups) that you wish to import from Azure AD to be permitted SSO access to your Zettagrid Cloud Director account. Assign a Role to these imported users.

 

Click save.

Congratulations! You’ve now configurated SAML authentication to be used with Zettagrid Cloud Director.

Your users will now be prompted to use Single Sign authentication when they next navigate to your Tenant URL.

If you have any issues, or further questions please contact our support team.