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SCIM User And Group Provisioning For Custom App

User Sync & Group Sync app provisions user and group information from your app to Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket. Users, groups and directory details can by provisioned using SCIM. SCIM provisioning works based on events performed on IDP. This way the administrator only needs to manage user accounts in your app. This reduces the administration time required to create users and groups in Atlassian modules such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

Download And Installation

Log into your atlassian instance as admin.
Navigate to the settings menu and Click Manage Apps.
Click on Find new apps .
Locate miniOrange User and Group Sync app.
Click Try free to begin a new trial or Buy now to purchase a license.
Enter your information and click Generate license when redirected to MyAtlassian.
Click Apply license.

Step 1: Get SCIM Client Details

In the Configuration tab, please select Custom SCIM App provider.

In SCIM configuration, Please enter App Name and click on Save Settings button. Copy the SCIM Base URL and SCIM Bearer Token, these will be used later to configure SCIM application on your app.

Step 2: Setup Provider SCIM Configurations

Copy the SCIM Base URL and SCIM Bearer token from the plugin.
Create an application that supports SCIM provisioning.
Provide the base URL and bearer token to your application.
Test and save the settings.
Assign users and groups to this application.

3: LDAP Sync Settings

The miniOrange user sync app now provides support for LDAP Sync. Follow the instructions to configure the LDAP directory. By configuring the LDAP directory, you can synchronize all attributes from your LDAP directory and choose the attributes you wish to include in Jira.

LDAP sync in user and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket User Sync

Once you have successfully configured the LDAP directory in Jira/Confluence, you can test the specific user’s attributes by using the Test Sync button.

LDAP sync configuration in user and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket User Sync

To test your configuration, enter an username(sAMAccountName) from your directory's user data and click on the Search User button. You will then be able to view the details of the searched user.

LDAP sync test in user and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket User Sync

4: User Sync Settings

Select the User Sync Settings tab from the left sidebar. Here you can configure different settings about user creation and updation.

User and group provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket User Sync

You can select the directory, enable or disable user import, update process.
The user can be automatically enabled or disabled here based on IDP configuration.
You also have an option to set Default Project Lead and Default Component Lead.
Attribute mapping enables you to map your attributes sourced from the IDP to Jira attributes. Through this section you can map your jira attributes to the attributes coming from IDP. By default, username attribute corresponds to the username/userPrincipalName attribute, email corresponds to the email/mail attribute, and displayName corresponds to the full name attribute. However, if you want to map these jira attributes with other attributes coming from IDP, you can use this feature to change the attribute mapping configurations.

Attribute Mapping using user and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket User Sync

User sync also supports mapping of custom attributes. Here, you can create custom attributes and automatically assign values to them from the IDP (Identity Provider). Select the desired attributes from the IDP that you want to display in Jira and provide a name for the custom attributes to be shown in Jira.

Custom Attribute Mapping with user and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket User Sync

Custom fields will be displayed in the user profile section as shown below

Custom Attributes in user and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket User Sync

5: Group Sync Settings

Select the Group Sync Settings tab from the left sidebar. Here you can configure different settings about group creation and group mapping.

User and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket Group Sync

Here you can configure Default groups for new and all users.
You can set Manual Group Mapping or On-The Fly Group Mapping.

1. On-The Fly Group Mapping -

Here users will be assigned to groups in Jira whose group name is the same as groups from IDP. If the group doesn't exist in Jira then it will be created.
You can configure to keep the existing user groups, filter groups and apply regular expressions on the groups.

User and gruop provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket On The Fly Group Mapping

2. Manual Group Mapping -

Here you can manually map Jira groups with the groups from IDP.
You can also configure to import IDP groups, filter groups and whether to keep existing users or not.

User and group provisioning in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket Manual Group Mapping

6: Multiple IDPs Settings

The plugin allows for configuring SCIM provisioning on your SP (Service Provider) to accommodate your specific use case. To add another IDP, simply navigate to the "Configured IDPs" section. Select on Add new App to configure multiple provisioning connections.