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If Exact Globe Next is configured for the federated identity environment, the federated identity services must also be configured to support the federated identity authentication, and to perform the federated identity authentication using the configured federated identity provider details.
This document describes the overview of how to configure Auth0 in Exact Globe Next. Topics such as where to retrieve the details from an Auth0 account, and how to use the details to configure Auth0 in Exact Globe Next are also explained in this document.
To sign up for Auth0, do the following:
Your account name is always displayed on the top right of the page. When you click on your account name, a drop-down menu will be displayed with the Logout option.
To log in again, go to http://manage.auth0.com/ and type your account details.
The Auth0 users are user accounts that can be used to log in to Exact Synergy Enterprise, Exact Globe Next, Exact Lightweight Integration Server (ELIS), and others if these products have been configured to use the federated identity authentication using Auth0.
Before you can use these accounts, the following must be created:
Auth0 applications are configurations that represent, and are used by Exact Synergy Enterprise, Exact Globe Next, ELIS, and others for the federated identity authentication via Auth0. Before you can set up Exact Synergy Enterprise, Exact Globe Next, ELIS, or other applications, you have to configure the Auth0 application first.
Note: This document describes reusing the Default App that has been previously created but you can also create another application.
To configure the Auth0 application, do the following:
The authentication activities from Auth0 can be viewed by clicking Logs on the left menu.
To use federated identity with Exact Globe Next, the following configuration details must be made available in Exact Globe Next:
The configuration details stated must be entered in the Federated Identity Configurator, to generate the federated identity configuration files for Exact Globe Next.
To retrieve your Auth0 configuration details, log in to your Auth0 account and view the Auth0 application or client that you have configured for Exact Globe Next.
For more information on how to retrieve these details, see How-to: Retrieving information for Windows Azure Active Directory and Auth0.
Note: All values are case-sensitive; you should use the exact value, including any symbols. You are advised to always use lowercase to avoid a mismatch of the values.
To configure Exact Globe Next to use Auth0 as the authentication provider, the web application must have the following files configured for the token-based authentication:
These files should be configured and generated by the Federated Identity Configurator.
After generating the federated identity configuration files, the Exact Entity Service should be restarted.
When the Exact Globe Next services are configured to use the federated identity authentication, the Exact Globe Next application should be configured the same way.
The login screen will be displayed for Auth0 when starting Exact Globe Next. In the login screen, the user name and password will be verified by Microsoft Azure or Auth0 against the information configured at GlobeIdentity.config. The GlobeIdentity.config file has to be created and placed into the Exact Globe Next installation folder under the bin sub folder. For example, C:\Program files\Exact Globe Next\bin.
The password will be encrypted and stored at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\IsolatedStorage. The final sub folder will be stored in the AssemFiles folder.
The exception handling log file will be created in a text file format (ExactSSOExceptions.txt) at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Exact.