This article describes how to set up Microsoft Entra connector, which is a cloud-based identity and access management service that enables employees access external resources. The connector acts as a middleware between Entra ID and Identity Manager by exposing a SCIM API for Identity Manager to connect to as a datapool and manage users as core object templates.

<SMARTIDHOME>

In this article, <SMARTIDHOME> refers to /home/nexus, but this can be different depending on the setup.

Prerequisites

The IDM version needs to be 5.0.0 as a minimum.
Read the official documentation regarding how to authenticate and other important topics here.

Step-by-step instruction

Set up Microsoft Entra

Authentication

The Entra ID Connector supports two types of authentication to the Graph API, via client secret or certificate.

Configure the Entra ID Connector in config/entra-id.yaml. You can configure host, security, and authentication in the configuration file.

Docker

Open the environment file <SMARTIDHOME>/compose/smartid.env for editing.
Set the properties for the following three variables to fit your deployment:

PRIME_CONNECTORS_VERSION=2408.0.0

## - Entra ID Connector properties
ENTRA_ID_CONNECTOR_PORT=8083
ENTRA_ID_REQUEST_INTERCEPTOR_ENABLED=false
ENTRA_ID_CONNECTOR_CLIENT_ID=
# client secret authentication setting
ENTRA_ID_CONNECTOR_CLIENT_SECRET=
# cert authentication settings
ENTRA_ID_CONNECTOR_CERTIFICATE_PATH=classpath:certs/
ENTRA_ID_CONNECTOR_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD=
ENTRA_ID_CONNECTOR_ENCRYPTION_KEY=
ENTRA_ID_CONNECTOR_ENCRYPTION_SALT=

Tomcat (stand-alone)

Adapt the config files in the WEB-INF/classes/config folder.

Nexus Documentation

Set up Microsoft Entra connector