Integrate with Cisco Meraki Dashboard

Use JumpCloud SAML Single Sign On (SSO) to give your users convenient but secure access to all their web applications with a single set of credentials.

Read this article to learn how to integrate with Cisco Meraki Dashboard. 

Prerequisites

• A JumpCloud administrator account.
• JumpCloud SSO Package or higher or SSO add-on feature.
• A Cisco Meraki Dashboard administrator account.

Creating a new JumpCloud Application Integration

1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Click + Add New Application.
4. Type the name of the application in the Search field and select it.
5. Click Next.
6. In the Display Label, type your name for the application. Optionally, you can enter a Description, adjust the User Portal Image and choose to hide or Show in User Portal.

7. Optionally, expand Advanced Settings to specify a value for the SSO IdP URL. If no value is entered, it will default to https://sso.jumpcloud.com/saml2/<applicationname>.

8. Click Save Application.
9. If successful, click:
   • Configure Application and go to the next section
   • Close to configure your new application at a later time

Configuring the SSO Integration

To configure JumpCloud 1

1. Create a new application or select it from the Configured Applications list.
2. Select the SSO tab.
3. Add any desired attributes.
4. Click save.

Download the certificate

1. Find your application in the Configured Applications list and click anywhere in the row to reopen its configuration window.
2. Select the SSO tab and click IDP Certificate Valid > Download certificate.

To configure Cisco Meraki Dashboard

1. Sign in to Meraki Dashboard as an administrator.
2. Navigate to Organization > Settings.
3. In the SAML Configuration section, select SAML SSO enabled from the SAML SSO dropdown menu, then click Add a SAML IdP.
4. Enter the following information:
   • X.509 cert SHA1 fingerprint - paste the THUMBPRINT value. See Determining the Sha1 Fingerprint to determine the THUMBPRINT from the certificate.pem file downloaded in the previous section.
   • SLO logout URL (optional) - enter https://console.jumpcloud.com/userconsole/.
5. Click Save.
6. On the Organization settings page, make a copy of the Consumer URL value.
7. Navigate to Organization > Administrators.
8. Click Add SAML role
9. Enter a Role name, and select the appropriate Organization access and privileges, then click Create role.
10. Click Save changes.

To configure JumpCloud 2

1. Back in JumpCloud, search for Meraki Dashboard in the Configured Applications list and reopen it.
2. Select the SSO tab.
3. Paste the Meraki Consumer URL copied in the previous section to the Default URL field in the ACS URLs section.
4. In the Attributes section, confirm the JumpCloud Attribute Name matches the attribute used in Meraki Dashboard.

5. Toggle Off under Constant Attributes if you do not want to use JIT.
6. Click save.

Using JIT Provisioning

Additional attributes are required to use JIT provisioning. JIT required attributes are prepopulated and are on by default to enable JIT provisioning. You can’t edit the JIT required service provider attributes. You can customize the JumpCloud attribute name and the constant value for JIT required attributes. Toggle off the attributes to opt out of sending the attributes in the SAML assertion

To complete the provisioning process

1. Authorize a user’s access to the application in JumpCloud.  
2. Have the user log in to the application using SSO. The SAML assertion passes from JumpCloud to the service provider, and gives the service provider the information it needs to create the user account.

Authorizing User SSO Access

Users are implicitly denied access to applications. After you connect an application to JumpCloud, you need to authorize user access to that application. You can authorize user access from the Application Configuration panel or from the Groups Configuration panel. 

To authorize user access from the Application Configuration panel

1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications, then select the application to which you want to authorize user access.
3. Select the User Groups tab. If you need to create a new group of users, see Get Started: User Groups.
4. Select the check box next to the group of users you want to give access.
5. Click save. 

To learn how to authorize user access from the Groups Configuration panel, see Authorize Users to an SSO Application.

Validating SSO user authentication workflow(s)

IdP-initiated user workflow

• Access the JumpCloud User Console
• Go to Applications and click an application tile to launch it
• JumpCloud asserts the user's identity to the SP and is authenticated without the user having to log in to the application

SP-initiated user workflow

• Go to the SP application login - generally, there is either a special link or an adaptive username field that detects the user is authenticated through SSO

• Login redirects the user to JumpCloud where the user enters their JumpCloud credentials
• After the user is logged in successfully, they are redirected back to the SP and automatically logged in

Removing the SSO Integration

To deactivate the SSO Integration

1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Search for the application that you’d like to deactivate and click to open its details panel. 
4. Select the SSO tab.
5. Scroll to the bottom of the configuration.
6. Click Deactivate SSO. 
7. Click save. 
8. If successful, you will receive a confirmation message.

To delete the application

1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Search for the application that you’d like to delete.
4. Check the box next to the application to select it.
5. Click Delete.
6. Enter the number of the applications you are deleting
7. Click Delete Application.
8. If successful, you will see an application deletion confirmation notification.