- Overview
- Configuration
Anypoint
Unify data pipelines by integrating Anypoint with centralized directories.
Overview
Anypoint is a unified integration platform provided by MuleSoft that connects applications, data, and devices across cloud and on-premises environments. Integrating Anypoint with ADManager Plus allows IT teams to automate identity data synchronization, improving visibility and control across user management systems.
Use Cases:
Sync user data from Anypoint to AD
Automatically import user details from Anypoint into Active Directory to maintain consistent identity records across both platforms.
Reflect Anypoint updates in AD profiles
Keep AD user attributes up to date by syncing changes made in Anypoint, such as modified email addresses, roles, or departments.
Automate provisioning and deprovisioning with attribute mapping
Use attribute-based rules to create or remove AD accounts based on user data received from Anypoint, ensuring efficient lifecycle management.
How to configure Anypoint integration in ADManager Plus
Prerequisites:
Please ensure to provide the bearer token to retrieve desired information and perform tasks in Anypoint. Refer to Anypoint API references for more details.
Privileges:
- To import users (inbound action): Ensure the account used for authorization has permission to read all user accounts.
- To perform any action or query in Anypoint (outbound action): Ensure the account used for authorization has permission to perform the desired action.
Authorization configuration
- Log in to ADManager Plus and navigate to Directory/Application Settings.
- Go to Application Integrations, then search and select Anypoint.
- Toggle the Enable Anypoint Integration button on.
- In the Anypoint Configuration page, click Authorization.
- Generate a bearer token using this link and provide username and password in the body message.
- Click Configure.
Inbound webhook configuration
Inbound webhook enables you to fetch user data from Anypoint to ADManager Plus. To configure an inbound webhook for Anypoint:
- Under Inbound Webhook, click Anypoint Endpoint Configuration.
- In the Endpoint Configuration tab, an endpoint, Anypoint GET ALL USERS ENDPOINT, comes pre-configured with an Endpoint URL, API Method, Headers, and Parameters fields to fetch user accounts from Anypoint. If you would like to use this preconfigured endpoint, replace {organization_id} in the Endpoint URL field. However, if you would like to use a new endpoint to import users, you can configure one using the + Add API endpoint button and filling in the required fields as per Anypoint's API references. Click here to learn how. Note:
- Authorization Header is preconfigured as a header for authenticating API requests as configured during Authorization Configuration.
- Macros: You can add macros to your endpoint configuration to dynamically change it as per your requirement using the macro chooser component.
- Refer to Anypoint's API references and configure additional headers and parameters, if required.
- Once done, click Test & Save. A response window will display all the requested parameters that can be fetched using the API call. After verifying if the requested parameters have been called to action, click Proceed. Note:
- Refer to Anypoint’s API references to know the Parameters that must be configured to fetch only specific parameters.
- You can configure multiple endpoints for Anypoint using the + Add API endpoint button. Click here to learn how.
- Click Data Source - LDAP Attribute Mapping to match endpoints and to map AD LDAP attributes with the respective attributes in Anypoint.
- Click + Add New Configuration and perform the following:
- Enter the Configuration Name and Description, and select the Automation Category from the drop-down menu.
- In the Select Endpoint field, select the desired endpoint and a Primary Key that is unique to a user (e.g., id).
- In the Attribute Mapping field, select the attribute from the LDAP Attribute Name drop-down menu and map it with the respective column in Anypoint.
- If you would like to create a new custom format for this, click Mapping Attribute.
Outbound webhook configuration
Outbound webhook enables you to update the changes made in AD using ADManager Plus to Anypoint or fetch or forward required details from Anypoint and synchronize them with AD. They can also be applied directly to desired users to perform a sequence of actions on them (Management > Advanced Management > Orchestration).
To configure an outbound webhook for Anypoint:
- Under Outbound Webhook, click Anypoint Webhook Configuration.
- Click + Add Webhook.
- Enter a name and description for this webhook.
- Decide on the action that has to be performed and refer to Anypoint’s API references for the API details, such as the URL, headers, parameters, and other requirements that will be needed.
- Select the HTTP method that will enable you to perform the desired action on the endpoint from the drop-down menu.
- Enter the endpoint URL.
- Configure the Headers, Parameters, and Message Type in the appropriate format based on the API call that you would like to perform.
- Click Test & Save.
- A pop-up window will then display a list of AD users and groups on which to test the configured API call. Select the desired user or group on which this API request has to be tested and click OK. This will make a real-time call to the endpoint URL, and the selected objects will be modified according to the configuration.
- The webhook response and request details will then be displayed. Verify them for the expected API behavior and click Save.