Hive cloud application

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

Set up SSO via SAML for Hive

Here's how to set up single sign-on (SSO) via SAML for the Hive application.

Step 1: Get Google identity provider (IdP) information
  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 Hive in the search field.
  5. In the search results, hover over the Hive SAML app and click Select.
  6. On the Google Identity Provider details page:
    1. Copy and save the SSO URL and Entity ID.
    2. Download the IDP certificate.

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

Step 2: Set up Hive as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)
  1. Open a new incognito browser window.
  2. Sign in to  https://app.hive.com with your Hive administrator account.
  3. Click your user icon at top right and then Your workspace and then Auth.
  4. On the Auth page, copy and save your Workspace ID, a unique value you'll need when you finish configuring SSO in the Admin console in Step 3 below.
  5. Enter the the IdP information you copied in Step 1 in the following fields:
    • SAML SSO URL: SSO URL
    • Identity Provider Issuer: Entity ID
    • Paste the contents of the IdP certificate into the Certificate text input area.
  6. Go to the Appearance tab,  then click Save changes.
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, edit the ACS URL, replacing {your-workspace-id} with the workspace id ID you copied from Hive in Step 2.
  4. Click Continue.
  5. On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Hive attributes:
     
    Google directory attribute Hive attribute
    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 service provider’s corresponding groups attribute name.

    Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response will include 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 Hive 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 Hive.
  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) Turn on the service for a group of users.
    Use access groups to turn on a service for specific users within or across your organizational units. Learn more

  8. Ensure that your Hive user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
Step 5: Verify that the SSO is working

Hive 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 Hive.
  4. At the top left, click Test SAML login

    Hive 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 https://app.hive.com.
  2. Enter your email address and click Sign in with SSO. You should be automatically redirected to the Google sign-in page.
  3. Enter your username and password.

After your sign in credentials are authenticated, you're automatically redirected back to Hive.



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