Creating an extended integration for Postman users

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Add credentials

Create the user integration

Create workflows

Before you start

The SCIM integration with Postman is only available for Enterprise accounts.

The integration retrieves SCIM Postman users. To utilize this integration, SCIM must be enabled on your Postman Enterprise team account. You must be a Postman Team Admin to enable SCIM for your team. Once SCIM is activated, you can generate an SCIM API key, a feature exclusive to Enterprise account holders. For detailed instructions on enabling SCIM and generating an API key, please refer to Generate Postman credentials

Add credentials to the vault in Oomnitza

Make life easier and add your credentials to Oomnitza before you create the integration.  

1. In Oomnitza, click Configuration > Security > Credentials.
2. Click Add new credential (+).
3. Search for the integration, and then click the forward button > to select the integration.
4. Add your API key.
5. Click Create.

Integration not in the list? Click Advanced Mode and complete these steps:

1. Add the information details.
2. Click the AUTHORIZATION tab.
3. Ensure that API Key is selected as the Authorization type.
4. Ensure that the Token Name is Authorization
5. Enter the API key.
6. Ensure that Add to Header is selected.
7. Click CREATE.

Next

You use the credentials that you added to create and customize your Postman integrations with Oomnitza.

Create 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

When you edit the Integration details section, you can select the name or names of integration contacts.  Integration contacts will receive an in-app notification and an email, when the integration fails, when the integration fails to complete within 24 hours, or when the scheduled integration fails to run.

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 .

  Select 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 Postman fields to Oomnitza fields and create custom mappings to get the user information that you need.

Complete these actions:

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 custom mappings to map the Postman fields that you want to add to Oomnitza:
   1. Click the down arrow on the field that you want to map.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza users field.
   3. Change the name of the field. For example, you can change the name of the ID field to Postman ID.
   4. Click CREATE. 
3. Ensure that the Email is mapped to the
   1. Username field on the Oomnitza side (required for integration).
   2. Email field on the Oomnitza side (required for integration).
   3. Select the Role field on the Oomnitza mapping side.
   4. Choose a suitable role from the list (a defined role is necessary for the integration)
   5. Assign a sync key to a unique field, such as the Email.
4. Click UPDATE.

Custom Postman to Oomnitza mappings

The following Postman fields can be mapped to Oomnitza:

Connector Sync Time
Created
External Id
Id
Family Name
Given Name
Is Active
Last Modified
Resource Type
Email

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

Create workflows

You can create a Saas User workflow in Oomnitza using the Postman User Role preset.  This preset fetches the "resourceType" of Postman users and matches it to the Role column in SaaS > Postman. It also removes any users that are flagged as inactive from the list of users in SaaS > Postman.

The request uses the Postman Get SCIM User API. 

Prerequisites

Before you create a SaaS user workflow, you should have already run your the Postman extended user integration and selected User plus SaaS User to populate the software entry in the Software > SaaS menu.

To create a Saas User workflow using the Postman User Role preset, complete the following steps:

1. Click Configuration > Workflows > Saas Users from the menu.
2. Click Add (+). The Begin and End blocks are automatically added to the sandbox.
3. Enter the name and a description of the workflow. 
4. Edit the Begin block by adding the rules that will trigger the workflow. For further information see SaaS User Roles.
5. Click the Blocks tab, and drag and drop the SaaS User Role retrieval block onto the canvas.
6. Click the Edit icon.
7. Enter Postman in the search field and choose the Postman SaaS User Role preset.
8. Click the right arrow >.
9. Enter your Credentials.
10. Select the Deactivate User checkbox to deactivate the SaaS user in SaaS > Postman > Users if they are flagged as inactive in Postman. 
11. Click SAVE.
12. Connect the blocks.
13. Save, validate, and activate your workflow.

To view active Postman users in the SaaS Users UI, complete the following steps:

1. Click Software from the menu.
2. Select the SaaS tab, and select your software entry for Postman.
3. Click Users in the side pane.
4. The Role column will be populated with the user details to confirm that this user has been found in your Postman SaaS.

Reference articles for creating workflows

• Creating SaaS user workflows.
• Offboarding SaaS users.