Software Secure Firewall Threat Defense
Platform Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual
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Get Required Information For Your Microsoft Azure AD Realm

This task explains how to get the information required to set up a Microsoft Azure AD (now called Entra ID) realm in the Cisco 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.

To configure an Entra ID realm with the Cisco Security Cloud Control, you must get all of the following values:

Entra ID name

Cisco Security Cloud Control name

Application (Client) ID

Client ID

Client Credentials

Client Secret

Directory (tenant) ID

Tenant ID

Consumer group name

Consumer Group ID

Event hub name

Event Hubs Topic

Connection string—primary key

Event Hubs Connection String

Event hub host name

Event Hubs Broker

Procedure

1

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

2

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

3

In the left column, click App Registrations.

4

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

5

Click the name of your app.

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

6

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

7

Click Client Credentials.

8

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

9

Click Copy (copy icon) next to Secret ID and paste that value to a text file.

10

To find the event hub connection string, see Get an Event Hubs connection string from Microsoft.

11

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

12

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

13

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).

14

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

15

Click the name of a policy.

16

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

Copy the event hugs connection string to the clipboard

17

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

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

Copy the consumer groups name to the clipboard

18

In the left pane, click Overview.

19

Click Copy (copy icon) next to Namespace.

Copy the event hubs topic name to the clipboard

This is your event hubs topic name.

What to do next

See Create a Microsoft Azure AD (SAML) Realm for Passive Authentication.