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This cool solution will provide directions on how to configure NetIQ Access Manager Single Sign-on using Azure Active Directory as your identity provider. To do this configuration you need a Microsoft Azure Active Directory account. Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud based directory, and identity management service. Azure Active Directory editions are 3 types, choose premium to try out with a trial version.
This allows users to do SSO with Azure Active Directory authentication and seamless access to Enterprise applications or SaaS applications. Users can access Azure Active Directory and access NAM SSO with other applications without additional login. Azure Active Directory allows to create local user to Azure Active Directory. Those users can authenticate to Azure Active Directory and authenticate with NAM to access additional services. NetIQ Access Manager supports Risk Based Authentication and strong authentication using Advanced Authentication Framework can be combined with SAML2 process to secure services.
NetIQ Access Manager provides documentation which lists steps on how to configure SAML2 Identity Provider.
Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory documentation provides information on how to configure application and its Single Sign-on settings.
This Solution will guide you with the basic steps to setting up NAM as a Service Provider and Azure Active Directory as an Identity Provider.
This cool solution consists of two main building blocks:
To configure the integration of NetIQ Access Manager into Azure AD, you need to add NAM to your list of managed SaaS apps.
Configuration steps
In this section, you configure and test Azure AD single sign-on with NAM, you need to complete the following building blocks:
In this section, you enable Azure AD single sign-on in the Azure portal and configure single sign-on in your NAM application
To configure Azure AD single sign-on with NAM, perform these following steps:
The Objective of this section is to create a test user in the Azure portal
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