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Creating an extended integration for Azure Active Directory assets

  • November 10, 2024 13:07
  • Updated

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The Microsoft Active Directory Asset Load uses the Virtual Machines API. For further information, see Microsoft Azure API Documentation: Virtual Machines - List All.

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  • Configurable dashboards and list views of key asset information
  • Configurable reports to share information about your assets with your colleagues and management

Contents

  1. Before you start
  2. Creating the asset integration
  3. Mappings

About this task

This integration imports asset records to the Asset page in Oomnitza.

Before you start

1. Your Microsoft Identity Management Subscription ID

Specify multiple subscriptions in each integration to enable comprehensive aggregation of data and resources across your Azure environment. Azure subscriptions act as containers for billing, resources, and permissions, essential for organizing and controlling access to Azure services. To locate your subscriptions, go to the Azure portal, look under the Azure services heading, and select Subscriptions. Here, you can select and copy the subscription ID of your choice. For detailed instructions and additional information, refer to the Microsoft Azure Portal Documentation on Get subscription and tenant IDs.

2. Your Microsoft Credentials 

You will be prompted to enter your Client ID, Client Secret, Scope and Tenant ID before you run the integration. For information see Microsoft OAuth 2.0 credentials.

info_ion.svgMake sure that you have added the correct permissions to your Microsoft Azure app. When you create the credentials, make sure to set the scope to https://management.azure.com/user_impersonation. For information see Generating your OAuth2.0 credentials

Creating the asset integration

  1. In Oomnitza, click Configuration> Integrations> Overview.
  2. Click Block view block_view.PNG
  3. Scroll down to the Extended section for asset integrations.
  4. Click NEW INTEGRATION.
  5. Select the integration in the sidebar.
  6. Click ADD.

Integration details overview

More information is provided about the following fields to help you complete the integration:

Installation type

Select Cloud if you want to store credentials in the Oomnitza cloud.

Select Local if you want to store credentials locally. Local extended integrations do not support AWS and OAuth authentication. If you want to sync Oomnitza with vendor applications that require AWS or OAUTH authentication, select Cloud.

Integration preferences

By default, the option Create & Update option is selected. Select this option  when you want to edit records and add new records. If you want to edit records and not add new records, select Update Only. If you only want to add new records, select Create Only.

Integration details

To review or update the integrations details, click Edit edit_black_pencil_icon.svg.

  1. Update the integration name if necessary. 
  2. Select an installation type.
  3. For integration preferences, select an option.
  4. Enter the name of the integration user.

Credential details

If you selected Cloud as the installation type, choose one of the following options:

  • Select the credentials that were created for the integration.
  • Edit the credentials that were created for the integration.
  • Create new credentials

Schedule

By default, data is streamed to Oomnitza once every day.

You can configure the schedule to meet your needs such as changing the interval or changing the time so that the data is streamed when your system isn't busy.

  1. Click the Edit edit_black_pencil_icon.svg.
  2. Configure your schedule.
  3. Click Update.

Mappings

To map the fields to Oomnitza, click Edit edit_black_pencil_icon.svg.

TipBulb_Icon_small.svgYou can define rules for your integration by selecting Edit integration edit_integration.svg on the mapping page. For example, you may only want to run the integration if a certain contact or region exists. See Filtering integration results.  
You can add new fields to your integration by selecting Add new field  add_grey_rectangel_icon.svg on the mapping page. All you need to do is specify the property name. See Creating custom API fields. 

Creating custom mappings

Map Microsoft Active Directory fields to Oomnitza fields to get the user information that you need. For the field mapping, it is recommended to follow these steps:

  1. Click Smart Mapping to automatically detect appropriate mapping fields. Values from the integration can also be dragged to the appropriate field on the Oomnitza side, or selected from the integration field dropdown.
  2. Create a custom mapping for the ID.
    1. Click the down arrow on the ID.
    2. Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
    3. Update the Name field to Virtual Machine ID.
    4. Select the Unique checkbox.
    5. Click CREATE. 
  3. Assign a sync key to the Virtual Machine ID, or a similar unique field.

Tracking information for asset loads 

When the integration is run, you can track the name of the credentials that were used and the source of the data. To do this, you map the following fields to Oomnitza:   

  • Connect: Credentials
  • Connect: Subscription ID

The following fields can be mapped from Azure Devices using Oomnitza's User Interface. 

Admin Username
Allow Extension Operations
Boot Diagnostics Enabled
Caching
Computer Name
Create Option
Disk Size (GB)
Exact Version
ID
Location
Name
Name
OS Type
Offer
Provisioning State
Publisher
Require Guest Provision Signal
SKU
Size
Storage Account Type
Type
Version

Launching the integration

Your integration is in Draft mode until the required mandatory fields are added. When added, click Launch to activate your integration. 

small_blue_link.svg If you selected Cloud as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration

small_blue_link.svg If you selected Local as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration locally.

Viewing data ingested by Oomnitza

Viewing ingested asset data

For asset integrations, click Hardware. If the asset integration also ingests software data, click Software.

Viewing ingested user data

For user integrations, click People. If you chose the option to ingest User and SaaS user data, click Software > SaaS, click the SaaS app, and then click the Users tab. 

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