Get required information For Your Microsoft Azure AD realm

This task enables you to collect the necessary credentials and configuration information from Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and Event Hubs to establish a SAML authentication realm in your Secure Firewall Management Center.

This task explains how to get the information required to set up a Microsoft Azure AD (now called Entra ID) realm in the Security Cloud Control. You might have already obtained this information when you set up Microsoft Entra ID as discussed in Configure Microsoft Entra ID for passive authentication.

Procedure

Step 1

Log in to https://portal.azure.com/ as a user with at least the Product Designer role.

Step 2

At the top of the page, click Microsoft Entra ID.

Step 3

In the left column, click App Registrations.

  1. If necessary, filter the list of displayed apps to show the one you want to use.

  2. Click the name of your app.

    Get the client credentials from Entra ID's app registrations page

  3. Click Copy (copy icon) next to the following values on this page and paste those values to a text file.

    • Application (Client) ID

    • Directory (tenant) ID

  4. Click Client Credentials.

  5. Unless you already know the client secret value (as opposed to the client secret ID), you must create a new client secret as follows:

    1. Click New Client Secret.

    2. Enter the required information in the provided fields.

    3. Click Add.

    4. Click Copy (copy icon) next to Value as the following figure shows.

      Copy the client secret to the clipboard

Step 4

From https://portal.azure.com/, click Event Hubs > (name of an event hub).

  1. In the right pane, click Copy (copy icon) next to the value of Host name and paste the value to the clipboard. This is your event hub host name.

    Copy the even hubs host name to the clipboard

  2. Write down or copy to a text file the name of the event hub (same as the Event Hubs Namespace at the top of the page).

  3. In the left pane, under Settings, click Shared access policies.

  4. Click the name of a policy.

  5. Click Copy (copy icon) next to Connection string-primary key.

    Copy the event hugs connection string to the clipboard

Step 5

Click Overview > Entities > Event Hubs > (name of an event hub) > Entities > Consumer Groups.

Write down this value or copy it to the clipboard. This is your consumer group name.

Copy the consumer groups name to the clipboard

Step 6

In the left pane, click Overview.

Step 7

Click Copy (copy icon) next to Namespace.

Copy the event hubs topic name to the clipboard

This is your event hubs topic name.