Manage Identity Providers¶

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Federation Management Access

Procedure
Configure An External Identity Provider Application
Apply Your Identity Provider to Atlas
Configure Your Identity Provider with Atlas Metadata
Next Steps

MongoDB Federated Authentication links your credentials across many MongoDB systems. Atlas implements authentication using the Federated Identity Management model.

Using the FIM model:

Your company manages your credentials using an Identity Provider (IdP). With its IdP, your company can enable you to authenticate with other services across the web.
You configure MongoDB Atlas to authenticate using data passed from your IdP.

This goes beyond SSO as your IdP manages your credentials, not MongoDB. Your users can use Atlas without needing to remember another username and password.

The following procedure walks you through linking an IdP to Atlas.

Federation Management Access¶

You can manage federated authentication from the Federation Management Console. You can access the console as long as you are an Organization Owner in one or more organizations that are delegating federation settings to the instance.

Procedure¶

Important

Two-Stage Configuration

Depending on your Identity Provider, some circular logic may apply when linking it to a Service Provider like Atlas. To link your IdP to Atlas:

Your IdP needs values from Atlas and
Atlas needs values from your IdP.

To simplify setup, Atlas prompts you to enter placeholder values for the IdP and Atlas configurations. You will replace these values later in the procedure.

Configure An External Identity Provider Application¶

To configure Federated Authentication, you must have an external SAML IdP application. In the SAML IdP, you must:

Create a new application for Atlas.

Configure initial SAML values for the new application:

Set placeholder values for the following fields:
- SP Entity ID or Issuer
- Audience URI
- Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL

Set valid values for the following fields:

Field	Value
Signature Algorithm	The signature algorithm is the algorithm used to encrypt the IdP signature. Atlas supports the following signature algorithm values: `SHA-1` `SHA-256`
Name ID	A valid email address. Important Name ID is both your email address and username.
Name ID Format	`urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified`

Create attributes with the following Attribute Names for the following SAML Attribute Values:
SAML Attribute Name
SAML Attribute Value
firstName
First Name
lastName
Last Name
memberOf
User Groups
Note
The names of these attributes are case sensitive. Type these attribute names as shown in camelCase.
Save these values.

SAML Attribute Name	SAML Attribute Value
`firstName`	First Name
`lastName`	Last Name
`memberOf`	User Groups

Once you have completed the initial setup for your IdP application, you link the IdP to Atlas to federate your users' logins.

Apply Your Identity Provider to Atlas¶

Note

Prerequisite

This procedure assumes you already have an external IdP. To learn how to configure an IdP, see Configure An External Identity Provider Application.

You can configure Federated Authentication in Atlas from the Federation Management Console. Use this console to:

Configure Identity Providers to authenticate users belonging to specified organizations.
Connect Atlas Organizations to your IdP.
Verify and associate Domains with your IdP to force users to authenticate using that IdP.

Open the Management Console¶

Navigate to the Settings page for your organization.¶

If it is not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.

Navigate to the Federation Management App.¶

In the Setup Federated Login or Manage Federation Settings section, click Visit Federation Management App.

From the Management Console:¶

Click Add Identity Providers
If you do not have any Identity Providers configured yet, click Setup Identity Provider. Otherwise, On the Identity Providers screen, click Add Identity Provider.

Enter or select the following SAML Protocol Settings. All fields are required:

Field	Description
Configuration Name	Name of this IdP configuration.
IdP Issuer URI	Identifier for the issuer of the SAML Assertion. Note Specify a placeholder value for this field. Obtain the real value for this field from your IdP once you have supplied it with the Atlas metadata.
IdP Single Sign-On URL	URL of the receiver of the SAML AuthNRequest. Note Specify a placeholder value for this field. Obtain the real value for this field from your IdP once you have supplied it with the Atlas metadata.
IdP Signature Certificate	PEM-encoded public key certificate of the IdP. You can obtain this value from your IdP. You can either: Upload the certificate from your computer, or Paste the contents of the certificate into a text box.
Request Binding	SAML Authentication Request Protocol binding used to send the AuthNRequest. Can be either: `HTTP POST` `HTTP REDIRECT`
Response Signature Algorithm	Response algorithm used to sign the SAML AuthNRequest. Can be either: `SHA-256` `SHA-1`

Click Next.

Configure Your Identity Provider with Atlas Metadata¶

Having set up your IdP in Atlas, you can provide the required Atlas metadata to your IdP.

On the Identity Provider screen in Atlas, click Download metadata to download the metadata required by your IdP. Atlas provides the data as an .xml file.
Note
Atlas provides the Assertion Consumer Service URL and Audience URI if you wish to manually copy and save these values. These values are included in the metadata download.
Upload the metadata to your IdP.
You now have the necessary information to replace the placeholder IdP Issuer URI and IdP Single Sign-On URL values set when you set up the initial IdP mapping in Atlas.
In Atlas, modify the placeholder values set for IdP Issuer URI and IdP Single Sign-On URL for the linked IdP with the proper values from your IdP.

Optionally, add a RelayState URL to your IdP to send users to a URL you choose and avoid unnecessary redirects after login. You can use:

Destination

RelayState URL

MongoDB Atlas

The Login URL that was generated for your identity provider configuration in the Atlas Federation Management App.

MongoDB Support Portal

https://auth.mongodb.com/app/salesforce/exk1rw00vux0h1iFz297/sso/saml

MongoDB University

https://university.mongodb.com

MongoDB Community Forums

https://auth.mongodb.com/home/mongodbexternal_communityforums_3/0oa3bqf5mlIQvkbmF297/aln3bqgadajdHoymn297

MongoDB Feedback Engine

https://auth.mongodb.com/home/mongodbexternal_uservoice_1/0oa27cs0zouYPwgj0297/aln27cvudlhBT7grX297

MongoDB JIRA

https://auth.mongodb.com/app/mongodbexternal_mongodbjira_1/exk1s832qkFO3Rqox297/sso/saml

Return to Atlas and click Finish.

Important

Once you link your IdP to Atlas, it shows as Inactive in the Federation Management Console until you map at least one domain to the IdP.

Next Steps¶

After you successfully linked your IdP to Atlas, you must map one or more domains to your Identity Provider. Atlas authenticates users from these domains through your IdP.

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