Spoke cloud application

You must be signed in as a super administrator for this task.

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 Spoke

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  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Click Add appSearch for apps.
4. Enter Spoke in the search field.
5. In the search results, hover over the Spoke SAML app and click Select.
6. On the Google Identity Provider details page:
   • Copy and save the SSO URL.
   • Download the certificate.
7. Click Continue.
8. On the Service provider details page, edit the ACS URL value, replacing {your-domain} with your Spoke subdomain. 
9. Click Continue.
10. On the Attribute mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Spoke attributes:

    Google directory attribute	Spoke attribute
    Basic Information > Primary Email	primaryEmail
    Basic Information > First Name	firstName
    Basic Information > Last Name	lastName
    Contact Information > Phone Number	phoneNumber

11. (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.

12. Click Finish.

Step 2: Set up Spoke as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)

1. Open a new incognito browser window and sign into Spoke as an administrator.

2. Click Settings on the left, then SAML   SAML Configuration.

3. Turn on Use SAML for user authentication.

4. In the Sign-on URL field, enter the SSO URL you copied in step 1.

5. In the Public certificate field, paste the certificate you downloaded in Step 1.

6. Click Save Settings.

Step 3: Enable the Spoke 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  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Spoke.
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 Spoke user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Step 4: Verify that the SSO is working

Spoke 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  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Spoke.
4. At the top left, click Test SAML login. 

   Spoke 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. Close all browser windows.
2. Open https://{your-domain}.askspoke.com and attempt to sign in. You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
3. Enter your user name and password.

After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected back to Spoke.

Step 5: Set up auto-provisioning

As a super administrator, you can automatically provision users in the Spoke application.

 

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