Creating an extended integration for Box users

Let Oomnitza be your single source of truth!

You'll get complete visibility of your users as data from Box is automatically transformed into consumable information and actionable insights.

Connect Oomnitza and Box in minutes

Get the information and insights that you need to reduce costs and the time that you spend on administration tasks such as:

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

Before you start

Before you can create the user integration with Oomnitza, you need to have completed the steps in Adding your Box credentials to Oomnitza.

Creating the user integration

1. In Oomnitza, click Configuration > Integrations > Overview.
2. Click Block view .
3. On the Integrations page, scroll down to the Extended section for user integrations.
4. Click NEW INTEGRATION.
5. In the sidebar, search for the integration.
6. Click ADD.

Integration details overview

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

• User only. Add user records.
• User plus SaaS user. Add user and SaaS user records. 

The benefit of adding SaaS user records is that you can run a workflow to validate the status and activity of SaaS users and retrieve information such as the role of the SaaS user. The information that can be retrieved depends on whether SaaS user workflows are available for the integration. 

Installation types

• Cloud. Store credentials in the Oomnitza cloud.
• Local. Store credentials locally. If you want to sync Oomnitza with vendor applications that require AWS or OAUTH authentication, select cloud as the type of installation. Local installations don't support AWS and OAuth authentication. 

Integration preferences

• Create & Update. Add and update records.
• Create only. Add records.
• Update only. Update records.

Editing the integration details

1. Click Edit .
2. Make your changes.

Editing the 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

Scheduling the integration

By default, data is synced once every day. Change the interval or the time so that the data is streamed when your system isn't busy.

1. Click Edit .
2. Make and save your changes.

Mapping fields to Oomnitza

To map the fields to Oomnitza, click Edit .

  Selecting Edit integration to add rules for syncing data. Filtering integration results.  
 

You can add new fields to your integration by selecting Add new field   on the mapping page. 
Creating custom API fields. 

Creating custom mappings

Map the Box fields to Oomnitza fields and create custom mappings to get the user information that you need.

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 Box ID. To do this, complete the following steps:
   1. Select the down arrow on the ID field that you want to map.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza users field.
   3. Change the name of the field to Box User ID.
   4. Select the Unique checkbox.
   5. Click CREATE. 
3. Ensure that the Login Name is mapped to the
   1. Username field on the Oomnitza side (required for integration).
   2. Email field on the Oomnitza side (required for integration).
4. Select the Role field on the Oomnitza mapping side.
5. Choose a suitable role from the list (a defined role is necessary for the integration)
6. Assign a sync key to a unique field, such as the Email.
7. Click UPDATE.

Standard Box to Oomnitza mappings

The following fields can be mapped to Oomnitza: 

Address
Avatar Url
Connector Sync Time
Created At
Id
Job Title
Language
Login Name
Max Upload Size
Modified At
Name
Notification Email List
Phone
Space Amount
Space Used
Status
Timezone
User Type

Note
For all user loads, it is recommended that you map role information to an employee role in Oomnitza. Users need to have an employee role defined in order to access Oomnitza. If the role information is not available from the user load, it is recommended that you select Employee from the Oomnitza Role dropdown list. You have the option to overwrite this at a later point should the role information become available. 

Complete these actions:

Associate the Login Name with the Email and Username fields

1. Select the down arrow next to the Login Name.
2. Select Email and Username from the list.
3. Select the Email field as the Sync Key.

Map the ID field to the Box User ID field 

1. Select the down arrow next to the Id field and select Add new Oomnitza users field.
2. Enter User External ID as the name of the field.
3. Click CREATE.   

Launching the integration

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

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

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. 

Related Links

• Running an extended integration
• Troubleshooting integrations
• Mapping extended integrations

Unleash the power of Oomnitza

To get valuable actionable insights that help you manage your assets, learn how to:

• Configure dashboards for your users and software
• Configure custom reports about your users and software
• Create workflows to automate tasks

See Getting started for more information.