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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 Saba
Step 1: Set up Google as a SAML identity provider (IdP)-
Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Apps
Web and mobile apps.
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Click Add app
- Enter Saba in the search field.
- In the search results, hover over the Saba SAML app and click Select.
- On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the Metadata XML.
- Click Continue.
- On the Service provider details page, edit the ACS URL and the Entity ID fields, replacing {subdomain} with your Saba subdomain.
When Saba responds (see step 2), you will paste the SAML Relay State in to the Start URL field. - Click Continue.
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(Optional) To map Google directory attributes to the corresponding app attributes, in the Attribute Mapping window:
- Click Add Mapping.
- Click Select field
- For App attributes, enter the corresponding app attribute.
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(Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:
- For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
- Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
- For App attribute, enter the groups attribute name of the corresponding 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.
- On the Attribute mapping page, click Finish.
- Open a new support ticket with Saba to let them know you'd like to enable SAML on your account.
Include the Metadata you downloaded in step 1. - Ask them to give you the SAML Relay State.
- Repeat the procedures in step 1 as needed to access the Start URL field and paste in the SAML Relay State (see step 1).
Saba lets you know when they enable SAML on their side.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
- Select Saba.
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Click User access.
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To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
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(Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- To change the Service status, select On or Off.
- 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.
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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.
- Ensure that your Saba user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
Saba supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:
IdP-initiated
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
- Select Saba.
- At the top left, click Test SAML login.
Saba 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
- In a new incognito browser window, go to your Saba instance.
You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page. - Enter your username and password.
After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected to Saba.
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