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      SCIM active directory integration

      Learn how to connect to Collaboard's SCIM endpoint and sync your AD users with Collaboard.

      Introduction and SCIM scope

      SCIM, or System for Cross-domain Identity Management is an open standard designed to manage user identity information. SCIM provides a defined schema for representing users and groups, and a RESTful API to run CRUD operations on those user and group resources.

      The goal of SCIM is to securely automate the exchange of user identity data between your company's cloud applications and any service providers, such as enterprise SaaS applications.

      For detailed information regarding SCIM, please look at https://scim.cloud/ 

      Our Auth API server supports the SCIM specification by providing a SCIM API. Using the SCIM API, the client application can get and modify all the information available in auth.

      All the API methods require authentication in order to be used, and the authentication token will provide the context of the calling user.

      We support the entire SCIM scope listed at https://scim.cloud/ except Bulk: POST https://example.com/{v}/Bulk.

      Find the supported SCIM methods in this document.

      Setup process in a nutshell

      1. Your homework: you need to configure your AD user provisioning
        1. define groups/ members/ etc.
          1. Determine which groups will get a license and thus become subscription members and which groups will contain free users without a license.
          2. Please send this information along with the request to get an access token.
        2. create the provisioning application
      2. Reach out to our support to get an access token to call our SCIM endpoint.
        1. We create a SCIM Manager user and assign the SCIM Manager role
        2. We create the access token that is tied to your SCIM Manager user. The token expires after 5 years. Treat with care!
        3. We will send the access token and the username for further reference.
      3. You use the access token and the SCIM endpoint URL at your provisioning application to establish the connection with our SCIM endpoint.

        Authenticating at the SCIM endpoint

        Use the access token we provided as the bearer token in the Authorization header for the SCIM calls.

        The SCIM endpoints are located under https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2
        The public API endpoints are located under https://{COLLABOARD_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL}/api/public/v2.0

        Environment AUTH_API_BASE_URL COLLABOARD_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL
        WEB https://api.collaboard.app/auth https://api.collaboard.app/public
        DE https://de.collaboard.app/server/auth https://de.collaboard.app/server/public
        CH https://ch-api.collaboard.app/auth https://ch-api.collaboard.app/public

        Discovery

        The discovery endpoints of the SCIM API can be found in the following urls:

        ServiceProviderConfig

        Specification compliance, authentication schemes, data models.
        Endpoint: GET https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/ServiceProviderConfig

        ResourceTypes

        Returns the types of resources available.
        Endpoint: GET https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/ResourceTypes

        Supported Methods

        The IBV.Auth SCIM API supports the following methods:

        Users

        Create

        POST https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Users

        Read

        GET https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Users/{id}

        Replace

        PUT https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Users/{id}

        Delete

        DELETE https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Users/{id}

        Update

        PATCH https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Users/{id}

        Search

        GET https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Users?filter={attribute}{operator}{value}&startIndex=1&count=10

        • Supported attributes: Username, FirstName, LastName, Email, PhoneNumber
        • Supported operators: eq (equals), sw (starts with), ew (ends with), co (contains)
        • Paging: Supported
        • Sort: Not supported

        Bulk

        Not supported

        Groups

        Create

        POST https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Groups

        Read

        GET https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Groups/{id}

        Replace

        PUT https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Groups/{id}

        Delete

        DELETE https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Groups/{id}

        Update

        PATCH https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Groups/{id}

        Search

        GET https://{AUTH_API_BASE_URL}/scim/v2/Groups?filter={attribute}{operator}{value}&startIndex=1&count=10

        • Supported attributes: DisplayName
        • Supported operators: eq (equals), sw (starts with), ew (ends with), co (contains)
        • Paging: Supported
        • Sort: Not supported

        Bulk

        Not supported