Tutorial: Configure kpifire for automatic user provisioning

This tutorial describes the steps you need to perform in both kpifire and Microsoft Entra ID to configure automatic user provisioning. When configured, Microsoft Entra ID automatically provisions and de-provisions users and groups to kpifire using the Microsoft Entra provisioning service. For important details on what this service does, how it works, and frequently asked questions, see Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning to SaaS applications with Microsoft Entra ID.

Capabilities Supported

• Create users in kpifire
• Remove users in kpifire when they do not require access anymore
• Keep user attributes synchronized between Microsoft Entra ID and kpifire
• Provision groups and group memberships in kpifire
• Single sign-on to kpifire (recommended)

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this tutorial assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

• A Microsoft Entra tenant
• A user account in Microsoft Entra ID with permission to configure provisioning (for example, Application Administrator, Cloud Application administrator, Application Owner, or Global Administrator).
• A kpifire tenant.
• A user account in kpifire with Admin permissions.

Step 1: Plan your provisioning deployment

1. Learn about how the provisioning service works.
2. Determine who will be in scope for provisioning.
3. Determine what data to map between Microsoft Entra ID and kpifire.

Step 2: Configure kpifire to support provisioning with Microsoft Entra ID

1. Sign in to https://app.kpifire.com with admin rights

2. Navigate to Settings->API Settings->Add New Token to generate the SCIM token.

   

3. Copy and save the SCIM token. This value will be entered in the Secret Token field in the Provisioning tab of your kpifire application.

Step 3: Add kpifire from the Microsoft Entra application gallery

Add kpifire from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to start managing provisioning to kpifire. If you have previously setup kpifire for SSO, you can use the same application. However it's recommended that you create a separate app when testing out the integration initially. Learn more about adding an application from the gallery here.

Step 4: Define who will be in scope for provisioning

The Microsoft Entra provisioning service allows you to scope who will be provisioned based on assignment to the application and or based on attributes of the user / group. If you choose to scope who will be provisioned to your app based on assignment, you can use the following steps to assign users and groups to the application. If you choose to scope who will be provisioned based solely on attributes of the user or group, you can use a scoping filter as described here.

• Start small. Test with a small set of users and groups before rolling out to everyone. When scope for provisioning is set to assigned users and groups, you can control this by assigning one or two users or groups to the app. When scope is set to all users and groups, you can specify an attribute based scoping filter.

• If you need additional roles, you can update the application manifest to add new roles.

Step 5: Configure automatic user provisioning to kpifire

This section guides you through the steps to configure the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to create, update, and disable users and/or groups in kpifire app based on user and group assignments in Microsoft Entra ID.

To configure automatic user provisioning for kpifire in Microsoft Entra ID:

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications

   

3. In the applications list, select kpifire.

   

4. Select the Provisioning tab.

   

5. Set the Provisioning Mode to Automatic.

   

6. In the Admin Credentials section, enter your kpifire Tenant URL and Secret token information. Select Test Connection to ensure that Microsoft Entra ID can connect to kpifire. If the connection fails, ensure that your kpifire account has admin permissions and try again.

   

7. In the Notification Email field, enter the email address of a person or group who should receive the provisioning error notifications. Select the Send an email notification when a failure occurs check box.

   

8. Select Save.

9. In the Mappings section, select Synchronize Microsoft Entra users to kpifire.

10. Review the user attributes that are synchronized from Microsoft Entra ID to kpifire in the Attribute Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the user accounts in kpifire for update operations. If you change the matching target attribute, you'll need to ensure that the kpifire API supports filtering users based on that attribute. Select Save to commit any changes.

    Attribute	Type	Supported for filtering
    userName	String	✓
    active	Boolean
    name.givenName	String
    name.familyName	String
    phoneNumbers[type eq "work"].value	String
    urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:department	String

11. In the Mappings section, select Synchronize Microsoft Entra groups to kpifire.

12. Review the group attributes that are synchronized from Microsoft Entra ID to kpifire in the Attribute-Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the groups in kpifire for update operations. Select the Save button to commit any changes.

    Attribute	Type	Supported for filtering
    displayName	String	✓
    members	Reference

13. To configure scoping filters, see the instructions provided in the Scoping filter tutorial.

14. To enable the Microsoft Entra provisioning service for kpifire, change Provisioning Status to On in the Settings section.

    

15. Define the users or groups that you want to provision to kpifire by selecting the desired values in Scope in the Settings section.

    

16. When you're ready to provision, select Save.

    

This operation starts the initial synchronization cycle of all users and groups defined in Scope in the Settings section. The initial cycle takes longer to do than next cycles, which occur about every 40 minutes as long as the Microsoft Entra provisioning service is running.

Step 6: Monitor your deployment

After you've configured provisioning, use the following resources to monitor your deployment:

• Use the provisioning logs to determine which users were provisioned successfully or unsuccessfully.
• Check the progress bar to see the status of the provisioning cycle and how close it's to completion.
• If the provisioning configuration seems to be in an unhealthy state, the application will go into quarantine. To learn more about quarantine states, see Application provisioning status of quarantine.

More resources

• Managing user account provisioning for enterprise apps
• What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?

Next steps

• Learn how to review logs and get reports on provisioning activity