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System Manager SAML Authentication Resolution Guide

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Applies to

  • ONTAP System Manager 9.3 and later
  • Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

Description

This KB article provides information on troubleshooting SAML authentication issues.

Procedure

Setup and Configure

Understanding the SAML authentication workflow

Pre-requisites for enabling SAML authentication in ONTAP System Manager

Configuring SAML authentication in ONTAP System Manager

How to determine if SAML authentication is successful

Logs related to SAML authentication in ONTAP System Manager

How to configure SAML authentication between ONTAP System Manager and Ping Federation IdP

Multifactor authentication in ONTAP 9 Best practices and implementation guide

 

Troubleshooting

Configuration of SAML authentication fails with ‘invalid host’ error

SAML authentication fails with login issues

SAML authentication fails due to missing IDP claim rule

SAML authentication fails due to missing name identifier claim rule

SAML authentication is not enabled on the cluster

Unable to login to System Manager due to misconfigured SAML

SAML authentication is rejected due to metadata mismatch

ONTAP SAML configuration cannot be completed when the Federation IdP requires the ONTAP metadata first

When SAML is enabled the connection to System Manager is not secure
 

ONTAP System Manager displays IP address instead of Cluster name in browser URL
 

 

 

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