SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) in Tableau Server (SP) | Magento – Tableau Server SSO Login

Overview

This guide will help you integrate Magento as a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (IdP) and Tableau as a Service Provider (SP) using the miniOrange Magento SAML IDP (Identity Provider) Extension. Magento SAML IdP extenstion gives you the ability to use your Magento credentials to login into Tableau Server (SP). Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure SSO between Tableau Server as SP (Service Provider) and Magento as IDP (Identity Provider).

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Installation Steps

Prerequisites

• To get the SP metadata details, log in to your Tableau Online Dashboard as Admin.
• Go to Authentication in the Settings menu.

• Select Enable an additional authentication method checkbox.
• Select SAML >> Edit Connection.
• Copy the Entity ID and ACS URL. You will require this while configuring the SSO in miniOrange Magento extension.

Steps to configure Tableau SAML Single Sign-on (SSO) Login into Magento 2

Configuring Magento as SAML Identity Provider (IdP):

• In the miniOrange IDP (Identity Provider) extension, go to Applications tab.

• Search for Tableau in the choose application searchbox and select the application.

• Enter the Application name under SP Name.
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• Now, enter the SP Entity ID or Issuer and ACS URL copied earlier and save the details.

Configure Tableau as Service Provider:

• Navigate to the Applications tab and click on Metadata settings for the Tableau application

• Here, you can find the Identity Provider Metadata URL /XML Metadata or endpoints like IDP Entity ID, SAML Login URL, SAML Logout URL (Premium Feature), Certificate. You can also download the IdP Metadata XML file which will be used for Tableau configuration.

• You will now have 3 options to provide the IDP Metadata to Tableau by downloading the XML Metadata, Metadata URL or providing the detials manually.
• Option 1 - Download the XML Metadata.
• Download the XML Metadata by clicking it on Download XML Metadata button.

• Navigate to your Tableau and upload the XML metadata file downloaded and click on the Apply button.

• Option 2 - Metadata URL.
• You can also copy the Metadata URL and provide it to your service provider to fetch the metadata.

• Option 3 - Provide the details manually to the Tableau.
• Copy the metadata details according to the table below.



Tableau Server return URL	SAML Login URL / Passive Login URL
SAML Entity ID	IDP-EntityID / Issuer
SAML certificate and key files	Certificate

• Navigate to your Tableau and paste the metadata details.

Attribute Mapping *(This is a Premium Feature)

• In the miniOrange Magento IDP extension, navigate to the Applications tab and click on Edit settings for the ASP.NET application.

• Click on Add Attribute button.

• Add the attribute name you want to send to your service provider and select the attribute from the dropdown menu and click on Save Button to save changes.


You have successfully configured the SAML SSO between Tableau as SAML Service Provider and Magento as SAML Identity Provider.




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