How to configure System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) provisioning for user management in Black Duck Portal.
SCIM provisioning automates user lifecycle management between your identity provider and Black Duck Portal. While SSO handles authentication, SCIM provisioning handles provisioning—automatically creating, updating, and removing user accounts based on changes in your identity provider.
Without SCIM provisioning, when an employee joins, changes roles, or leaves your organization, you must manually create, update, or delete their account in Black Duck Portal. With SCIM provisioning enabled, these changes happen automatically when you update your identity provider, ensuring immediate access for new employees and instant revocation for departing employees.
Key benefits include automated user provisioning and deprovisioning, synchronized attribute updates (such as name, email, and role changes), and reduced manual administration. Enable SCIM provisioning after configuring your SSO connection to eliminate the need to manually manage user accounts in both your IdP and Black Duck Portal.
Prerequisites
Enabling SCIM provisioning requires the following:
- Organization Administrator permissions in Black Duck Portal.
- Sufficient permissions to create an integration with Black Duck Portal in your IdP.
- An identity provider that supports SCIM provisioning.
- An established connection to your IdP in Black Duck Portal with OpenID or SAML 2.0. This configuration cannot be enabled when setting up a new connection.
Enable SCIM provisioning
- Select the options
icon next to the connection you wish to modify and then select Edit.The Edit SSO Connection page opens.