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Identity Manager 8.1.5 - Administration Guide for Connecting to G Suite

Mapping G Suite in One Identity Manager Synchronizing G Suite Managing G Suite user accounts and employees Provision of login information for G Suite user accounts Managing G Suite entitlement assignments Mapping of G Suite objects in One Identity Manager
G Suite customers G Suite user accounts G Suite groups G Suite products and SKUs G Suite organizations G Suite domains G Suite domain aliases G Suite admin roles G Suite admin privileges G Suite admin role assignments Reports about G Suite objects
Handling of G Suite objects in the Web Portal Basic data for managing G Suite Troubleshooting the connection to a G Suite environment Configuration parameters for managing G Suite Default project templates for G Suite API scopes for the service account Processing G Suite system objects Special features in the assignment of G Suite groups About us

Synchronizing G Suite

One Identity Manager supports synchronization with G Suite. The One Identity Manager Service is responsible for synchronizing data between the One Identity Manager database and G Suite.

This sections explains how to:

  • Set up synchronization to import initial data from G Suite to the One Identity Manager database.
  • Adjust a synchronization configuration, for example, to synchronize different customers with the same synchronization project.
  • Start and deactivate the synchronization.
  • Analyze synchronization results.

TIP: Before you set up synchronization with G Suite, familiarize yourself with the Synchronization Editor. For detailed information about this tool, see the One Identity Manager Target System Synchronization Reference Guide.

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Setting up initial synchronization of G Suite

The Synchronization Editor provides a project template that can be used to set up the synchronization of user accounts and permissions for G Suite. You use these project templates to create synchronization projects with which you import the data from G Suite into your One Identity Manager database. In addition, the required processes are created that are used for the provisioning of changes to target system objects from the One Identity Manager database into the target system.

To load G Suite objects into the One Identity Manager database for the first time

  1. Prepare a user with sufficient permissions for synchronizing in G Suite.

  2. The One Identity Manager components for managing G Suite environments are available if the TargetSystem| GoogleApps configuration parameter is set.

    • In the Designer, check if the configuration parameter is set. Otherwise, set the configuration parameter and compile the database.

    • Other configuration parameters are installed when the module is installed. Check the configuration parameters and modify them as necessary to suit your requirements.
  3. Install and configure a synchronization server and declare the server as a Job server in One Identity Manager.
  4. Create a synchronization project with the Synchronization Editor.
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Users and permissions for synchronizing with G Suite

The following users are involved in synchronizing One Identity Manager with G Suite.

Table 2: Users for synchronization

User

Permissions

User for accessing the target system (synchronization user)

You must provide at least one user with super-user permissions and a service account for authentication for full synchronization of G Suite objects with the supplied One Identity Manager default configuration.

  • The Google cloud platform project requires access to the following API's.

    Admin SDK
    Enterprise License Manager API
    Groups Settings API

  • A service account with the associated JSON key and cross domain G Suite delegation is required for authentication.

  • API access must be enabled in the Google Admin console.

  • The service account's client ID must be authorized for various API scopes in the Google Admin console: A list of API scopes is available on the One Identity Manager installation medium. You can use this list as a copy template.

    Directory: Modules\GAP\dvd\AddOn\ApiAccess

    File: GSuiteRequiredAPIAccess.txt

For more information, see Setting up required permissions for accessing G Suite.

One Identity Manager Service user account

The user account for One Identity Manager Service requires permissions to carry out operations at file level. For example, assigning permissions and creating and editing directories and files.

The user account must belong to the Domain users group.

The user account must have the Login as a service extended user permissions.

The user account requires access permissions to the internal web service.

NOTE: If One Identity Manager Service runs under the network service (NT Authority\NetworkService), you can issue access permissions for the internal web service with the following command line call:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://<IP address>:<port number>/ user="NT AUTHORITY\NETWORKSERVICE"

The user account needs full access to the One Identity Manager Service installation directory in order to automatically update One Identity Manager.

In the default installation, One Identity Manager is installed under:

  • %ProgramFiles(x86)%\One Identity (on 32-bit operating systems)
  • %ProgramFiles%\One Identity (on 64-bit operating systems)

User for accessing the One Identity Manager database

The Synchronization default system user is provided to execute synchronization with an application server.

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Setting up required permissions for accessing G Suite

To provide the G Suite connector with access to the target system, the required permissions must be set up in two Google web interfaces.

To set up the service account and enable APIs

  1. Open the Google Cloud Platform console (https://console.cloud.google.com).

  2. Log in as the G Suite super admin.

  3. Select a project or create a new one.

  4. Enable the APIs Admin SDK, Enterprise License Manager API and Groups Settings API.

  5. Create a service account.

    Table 3: Service account properties

    Property

    Value

    Role

     

    Provide new private key

    Enabled

    Key type

    JSON

    Activate cross-domain G Suite delegation

    Enabled

  6. Note the service account's client ID.

    You will need it for setting up the API privileges.

  7. Save the key file locally.

    You will need it for creating the synchronization project.

To enable API access and authorize the service account's client ID for the required API scopes

  1. Open the Google Admin console (https://admin.google.com).

  2. Log in as the G Suite super admin.

  3. Enable API access.

  4. Authorize the service account's client ID for the required API scope.

    For more information, see User for accessing the target system (synchronization user).

  5. Set up other users with super admins privileges if necessary.

    Up to eight users with super admin privileges can be used. Each user must log in to G Suite at least once and accept the terms of use.

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