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"Oracle EBS SSO solution by miniOrange allows enabling the Single Sign-On between Oracle EBS - 11i, 12.1, and 12.2.x and Active Directory, IDPs and directories without having to buy and install Oracle Access Manager (OAM) and Oracle Internet Directory (OID) license."

Oracle EBS SSO is an authentication solution that allows users to log in via LDAP authentication, AD passwords, or existing Identity Providers, instead of the Oracle E-Business Suite local password authentication. Oracle EBS SSO integration can be done with IDPs (Identity Providers) like miniOrange, Active Directory, Azure AD, Google, Okta, OneLogin, Ping Identity, Centrify, and many more. Here, the Oracle EBS SSO connector delegates the authentication to the SSO Server, which performs the authentication on behalf of Oracle EBS. EBS SSO connector gives you the flexibility of extending your existing SAML SSO integration to Oracle E-Business Suite as well. Oracle EBS SSO is strongly advised for better user experience and improved Security. Single Sign-On (SSO) is additionally a prerequisite for Oracle E-Business Suite IT Security Audits.

Authentication flow for miniOrange Oracle EBS SSO (Single Sign-On) Authentication

Prerequisites

• Contact Us or mail us at idpsupport@xecurify.com to get the trial version of miniOrange Oracle EBS SSO Connector.
• Setup the connector by following the steps in this document. The connector should be hosted on the same domain as your Oracle EBS Apps Tier; for example, if your Oracle EBS Web Entry FQDN is apps.example.com, the EBS SSO connector can be hosted on ebsauth.example.com.
• Once the Oracle EBS connector is set up, modify the file context.xml present under <apache-tomcat-directory>/conf & add the following line under the <Context> element: <CookieProcessor className="org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor" />
• Your context.xml file should look like this:



• Restart the Apache Tomcat server for this change to take effect.

Follow the step-by-step guide given below to setup Oracle EBS SSO

1. Create Oracle EBS Service Account

• Login to Oracle EBS as SYSADMIN (or a user with the User Management & Functional Administrator responsibilities).
• Under the User Management responsibility, add a User Account. These user credentials will be configured in the miniOrange EBS SSO Connector for connecting to the Oracle EBS database.



• Assign the role ‘Apps Schema Connect’ to this user.



• On the Oracle EBS Linux Environment, generate a new DBC file for use by the miniOrange EBS SSO Connector. You will need the apps user credentials, and the default DBC file (under $FND_SECURE) used by the Apps Tier. The AdminDesktop utility can be used to generate the new DBC file. You’ll have to specify the name of a new Desktop Node for this DBC file:
  
  java oracle.apps.fnd.security.AdminDesktop <apps-username>/<apps-password> CREATE NODE_NAME=<miniorange-sso-connector-fqdn> DBC=<path-to-existing-dbc-file>
  
• This will generate a file called <$TWO_TASK>_<miniorange-sso-connector-fqdn>.dbc in the same location as where your ran the previous command.
• Copy over this DBC file to the miniOrange SSO Connector server.

2. Add Oracle EBS in miniOrange

• Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
• Go to External Directories >> Add Directory >> Database. Select Oracle EBS from the dropdown menu.
• Enter the details according to the table below:
1. Oracle EBS DB Identifier : Any identifier for your Oracle EBS Instance
2. FND User Username : The username of the user created in Step 1
3. FND User Password : The password of the user created in Step 1
4. DBS File Path : The absolute path (on the miniOrange SSO Connector Server) to the DBC file
   (Created in Step 1)
5. APPL Server ID : The APPL_SERVER_ID of the Desktop Node created in Step 1.
   (This value will be present in the DBC file created in Step 1)



• Click on Save.

• Test DB Configuration
• Click on External Directories. Click on Select >> Test Connection next to your recently configured directory.



• Enter the username and password of the user created in step 1.



• Click on Test.

• After successful test configuration, go to Apps Click on Add Application button.



• Click on JWT App and search for Oracle EBS.





• Enter the details according to the table below:
1. Instance Name : Oracle
2. Default Homepage URL : e.g. https://apps.example.com:4443/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=OAHomepage
   (The URL of the Homepage for your Oracle EBS instance)
3. Post Logout Redirect URL : e.g. https://apps.example.com:4443
   (The URL of the website/page that you’d like to redirect your users to after logging out from Oracle EBS. This will redirect your logged-out users back to the Identity Source for authentication)
4. Oracle EBS User Store : Select Oracle EBS DB Identifier from dropdown
5. Primary Identity Provider : miniOrange
   (Or select the IDP which you have configured from the dropdown)



• Click on Save once all values are entered.
• Now, click on Apps section. Click on Select >> Edit in the action dropdown for your newly-added Oracle EBS instance.



• Make a note of the greyed-out APPS_AUTH_AGENT Profile Value URL.

3. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)

miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.

• Setup miniOrange as IDP
• Setup AD as User Directory
• Setup External IDP

• To add your users in miniOrange there are 2 ways:

1. Create User in miniOrange

2. Bulk Upload Users

1. Create User in miniOrange

• Click on Users >> User List >> Add User.



• Here, fill the user details without the password and then click on the Create User button.



• After successful user creation a notification message "An end user is added successfully" will be displayed at the top of the dashboard.



• Click on Onboarding Status tab. Check the email, with the registered e-mail id and select action Send Activation Mail with Password Reset Link from Select Action dropdown list and then click on Apply button.



• Now, Open your email id. Open the mail you get from miniOrange and then click on the link to set your account password.
• On the next screen, enter the password and confirm password and then click on the Single Sign-On (SSO) reset password button.



• Now, you can log in into miniOrange account by entering your credentials.

2. Bulk Upload Users in miniOrange via Uploading CSV File.

• Navigate to Users >> User List. Click on Add User button.



• In Bulk User Registration Download sample csv format from our console and edit this csv file according to the instructions.



• To bulk upload users, choose the file make sure it is in comma separated .csv file format then click on Upload.



• After uploading the csv file successfully, you will see a success message with a link.
• Click on that link you will see list of users to send activation mail. Select users to send activation mail and click on Send Activation Mail. An activation mail will be sent to the selected users.

• Click on External Directories >> Add Directory in the left menu of the dashboard.



• Select Directory type as AD/LDAP.



• STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If the active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
• STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway on your premise.




• Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
• Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
• Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against the LDAP Server URL field.
• Click on the Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.



• In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for the Distinguished Name attribute. The bind account should have minimum required read privileges in Active Directory to allow directory lookups. If the use case involves provisioning (such as creating, updating, or deleting users or groups), the account must also be granted appropriate write permissions.



• Enter the valid Bind account Password.
• Click on the Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.



• Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.



• Select a suitable Search filter from the drop-down menu. If you use User in Single Group Filter or User in Multiple Group Filter, replace the <group-dn> in the search filter with the distinguished name of the group in which your users are present. To use custom Search Filter select "Write your Custom Filter" option and customize it accordingly.



• Click on the Next button, or go to the Authentication tab.
• You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Next button to add user store.




Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.

Attribute	Description
Activate LDAP	All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it
Fallback Authentication	If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange
Enable administrator login	On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server
Show IdP to users	If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users
Sync users in miniOrange	Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP

• Click on the Next button, or go to the Provisioning tab.

User Import and Provisioning from AD

• If you want to set up provisioning, click here for detailed information. For now, we are skipping this step by clicking Skip on Provisioning.

Attributes Mapping from AD

• By default userName, firstName, lastName, email are configured. Scroll down and click on Save Configurations. To fetch additional attributes from Active Directory, enable Send Configured Attributes. On the left side, enter the name that you wish to release to the applications. On the right side, enter the attribute name from Active Directory. E.g., if you wish to fetch company attribute from Active Directory, and send it as organization to configured applications, enter the following:

  Attribute Name sent to SP = organization
  Attribute Name from IDP = company

Test Connections

• You will see a list of directories in External Directories. Go to the directory you have configured, click Select, then go to Test Connections and click on it.



• Click on Test Connection to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.



• On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.

Test Attribute Mapping

• You will see a list of directories in External Directories. Go to the directory you have configured, click Select, then go to Test Attribute Mapping and click on it.



• A pop-up will appear to add the username. After clicking Test, you will see the Test Attribute Mapping Result.

Set up AD as External Directory configuration is complete.

Note: Refer our guide to setup LDAP on windows server.

miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.

• Okta
• ADFS
• Ping
• AWS Cognito
• Many more

Not able to find your IdP or Need help setting it up?

Contact us or email us at idpsupport@xecurify.com and we'll help you setting it up in no time.

4. Test IDP-initiated SSO into Oracle EBS

• Open up a new browser or an incognito window, and paste the APPS_AUTH_AGENT Profile Value URL from Step 2, with ‘/ssologin’ appended to it, in the address bar. For example, if your APPS_AUTH_AGENT Profile Value URL is ‘https://ebsauth.example.com/osso/broker/1/app-uuid-value’, enter the following URL in the address bar: https://ebsauth.example.com/osso/broker/1/app-uuid-value/ssologin
• You should be redirected to the Identity Source against which you’d like to authenticate.



• After a successful authentication from the Identity Source, you should be logged into Oracle EBS.

5. Configure Redirection to miniOrange

• Login to Oracle EBS as SYSADMIN (or a user with the Functional Administrator responsibility).
• Navigate to Functional Administrator → Core Services → Profiles, and make the following changes:
• Search for the Profile with code APPS_SSO; change its site value from SSWA to SSWA w/SSO.
• Search for the Profile with the code APPS_AUTH_AGENT; change its site value to the APPS_AUTH_AGENT Profile Value from Oracle EBS configuration (e.g. https://ebsauth.example.com/oracle/sso/<customerId>/<appUuid>).
• Search for the Profile with the name Oracle Applications Session Cookie Domain; change its value from Host to Domain.
• Bounce the Application Tier of the Oracle E-Business Suite to reflect the changes.

6. Test SSO from Oracle EBS Base URL

• Open up a new browser or an incognito window, and enter your Oracle EBS instance’s base URL in the address bar (e.g. https://apps.example.com:4443/), and press enter.
• You should be redirected to the Identity Source configured for authentication.



• After a successful authentication from the Identity Source, you should be logged into Oracle EBS.



• You have now successfully configured the miniOrange SSO Connector for Single Sign-On (SSO) into Oracle EBS.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Additional Resources

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• Configure Peoplesoft SSO solution
• Oracle EBS ADFS SSO Integration
• Essential 8 Security Compliance

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