Spotinst cloud application

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With Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can sign in to enterprise cloud applications with their Google Cloud credentials.

Set up SSO via SAML for Spotinst

Step 1: Set up Google as a SAML identity provider (IdP)
  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

    Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Appsand thenWeb and mobile apps.
  3. Click Add appand thenSearch for apps.
  4. Enter Spotinst in the search field.
  5. In the search results, hover over the SpotinstSAML app and click Select.
  6. On the Google Identity Provider details page, copy and save the Metadata XML.

Leave the Admin console open, you'll continue with the configuration wizard after performing the next step in Spotinst.

Step 2: Set up Spotinst as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)
  1. Open a new incognito browser window and sign in to Spotinst as an administrator.
  2. Go to Settings and then Security and then Identity Providers.
  3. Copy the Relay State from Spotinst and paste this in to the Start URL field in Google.
  4. For the Metadata Document, upload the Metadata XML you downloaded from Google in step 1.
  5. Choose a default role for the automatically provisoned users.
  6. Click Save.
Step 3: Finish SSO configuration in Admin console
  1. Return to the Admin console browser tab.
  2. On the Google Identity Provider details page, click Continue.
  3. On the Service provider details page, replace the Start URL with the Relay State URL copied from Spotinst in Step 2 above.
  4. Click Continue
  5. On the Attribute mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Spotinst attributes:
     
    Google directory attribute

    Spotinst attribute

    Basic Information > Primary Email Email
    Basic Information > First Name FirstName
    Basic Information > Last Name LastName
  6. (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:
    1. For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
    2. Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
    3. For App attribute, enter the corresponding groups attribute name of the service provider.

    Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response includes only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to About group membership mapping.

  7. Click Finish.
Step 4: Enable the Spotinst app
  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

    Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Appsand thenWeb and mobile apps.
  3. Select Spotinst.
  4. Click User access.
  5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

  6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
    1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
    2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
    3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
  7. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.
  8. Ensure that your Spotinst user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
Step 5: Verify that SSO is working

Spotinst supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:

IdP-initiated

  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

    Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Appsand thenWeb and mobile apps.
  3. Select Spotinst.
  4. At the top left, click Test SAML login

    Spotinst should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

  1. Open a new incognito browser window and go to your Spotinst instance.
    You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
  2. Enter your username and password.  
    After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected to Spotinst.
 


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