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Duo Single Sign-On for HPE Greenlake

Last Updated: July 25th, 2024

Add two-factor authentication and flexible security policies to HPE Greenlake SAML 2.0 logins with Duo Single-Sign On. Our cloud-hosted SSO identity provider offers inline user enrollment, self-service device management, and support for a variety of authentication methods — such as passkeys and security keys, Duo Push, or Verified Duo Push — in the Universal Prompt.

Overview

As business applications move from on-premises to cloud hosted solutions, users experience password fatigue due to disparate logons for different applications. Single sign-on (SSO) technologies seek to unify identities across systems and reduce the number of different credentials a user has to remember or input to gain access to resources.

While SSO is convenient for users, it presents new security challenges. If a user's primary password is compromised, attackers may be able to gain access to multiple resources. In addition, as sensitive information makes its way to cloud-hosted services it is even more important to secure access by implementing two-factor authentication and zero-trust policies.

About Duo Single Sign-On

Duo Single Sign-On is our cloud-hosted SSO product which layers Duo's strong authentication and flexible policy engine on top of HPE Greenlake logins. Duo Single Sign-On acts as an identity provider (IdP), authenticating your users using existing on-premises Active Directory (AD) or another SSO IdP. Duo SSO prompts users for two-factor authentication and performs endpoint assessment and verification before permitting access to HPE Greenlake.

Duo Single Sign-On is available in Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials plans, which also include the ability to define policies that enforce unique controls for each individual SSO application. For example, you can require that Salesforce users complete two-factor authentication at every login, but only once every seven days when accessing HPE Greenlake. Duo checks the user, device, and network against an application's policy before allowing access to the application.

Configure Single Sign-On

Before configuring HPE Greenlake with Duo SSO using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 authentication you'll first need to enable Duo Single Sign-On for your Duo account and configure a working authentication source.

Once you have your SSO authentication source working, continue to the next step of creating the HPE Greenlake application in Duo.

Create the HPE Greenlake Application in Duo

  1. Log on to the Duo Admin Panel and navigate to Applications.

  2. Click Protect an Application and locate the entry for HPE Greenlake with a protection type of "2FA with SSO hosted by Duo (Single Sign-On)" in the applications list. Click Protect to the far-right to start configuring HPE Greenlake. See Protecting Applications for more information about protecting applications in Duo and additional application options. You'll need the information on the HPE Greenlake page under Downloads later.

  3. HPE Greenlake uses the Mail attribute, First name attribute, and Last name attribute when authenticating. We've mapped the bridge attributes to Duo Single Sign-On supported authentication source attributes as follows:

    Bridge Attribute Active Directory SAML IdP
    <Email Address> mail Email
    <First Name> givenName FirstName
    <Last Name> sn LastName

    If you are using non-standard attributes for your authentication source, check the Custom attributes box and enter the name of the attributes you wish to use instead.

  4. You can adjust additional settings for your new SAML application at this time — like changing the application's name from the default value, enabling self-service, or assigning a group policy.

  5. Keep the Duo Admin Panel tab open. You will come back to it later.

Duo Universal Prompt

The Duo Universal Prompt provides a simplified and accessible Duo login experience for web-based applications, offering a redesigned visual interface with security and usability enhancements.

Universal Prompt Traditional Prompt
 Duo Push in Universal Prompt  Duo Push in Traditional Prompt

We've already updated the Duo HPE Greenlake application hosted in Duo's service to support the Universal Prompt, so there's no action required on your part to update the application itself. If you created your HPE Greenlake application before March 2024, you can activate the Universal Prompt experience for users from the Duo Admin Panel. HPE Greenlake applications created after March 2024 have the Universal Prompt activated by default.

If you created your HPE Greenlake application before March 2024, it's a good idea to read the Universal Prompt Update Guide for more information, about the update process and the new login experience for users, before you activate the Universal Prompt for your application.

Activate Universal Prompt

Activation of the Universal Prompt is a per-application change. Activating it for one application does not change the login experience for your other Duo applications.

The "Universal Prompt" area of the application details page shows that this application is "Ready to activate", with these activation control options:

  • Show traditional prompt: Your users experience Duo's traditional prompt via redirect when logging in to this application.
  • Show new Universal Prompt: (Default) Your users experience the Universal Prompt via redirect when logging in to this application.

The application's Universal Prompt status shows "Activation complete" here and on the Universal Prompt Update Progress report.

Universal Prompt Info - Universal Prompt Activation Complete

Should you ever want to roll back to the traditional prompt, you can return to this setting and change it back to Show traditional prompt. However, this will still deliver the Duo prompt via redirect, not in an iframe. Keep in mind that support for the traditional Duo prompt ended for the majority of applications in March 2024.

Universal Update Progress

Click the See Update Progress link to view the Universal Prompt Update Progress report. This report shows the update availability and migration progress for all your Duo applications. You can also activate the new prompt experience for multiple supported applications from the report page instead of visiting the individual details pages for each application.

Create HPE Greenlake for SSO

  1. Log into your HPE Greenlake workspace as an administrator.

  2. In the "Getting Started" section, click the Manage Workspace tile. The "Manage Workspace" page opens.

  3. Click the Authentication tile. The "Authentication" page opens.

  4. Click Set Up SAML Connection. The "Add SAML Connection" pop-up window opens.

  5. Enter your domain into the Organization Domain Name field.

    Example: If your email address is user@example.com, then your domain is example.com.

  6. Click Continue. The "Add Identity Provider Details" page opens.

  7. Click the Metadata File radio button.

  8. Return to the Duo Admin Panel. Under "Downloads", click Download XML.

  9. Return to HPE Greenlake. Click Upload Metadata File and open the XML file you downloaded from Duo earlier.

  10. Click Next. The "Map SAML attributes" page opens.

  11. In the "Required attributes" section, type NameID into the SAML attribute name for email address field.

  12. Type hpe_ccs_attribute into the SAML attribute name for HPE Greenlake attribute field.

  13. In the "Optional attributes" section, type FirstName into the SAML attribute for first name field.

  14. Type LastName into the SAML attribute for last name field.

  15. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Next. The "Create a Recovery User" page opens.

  16. Make sure the Enable Recovery User toggle switch is on.

  17. Enter a unique password for your recovery user into the Recovery User Password field.

  18. Enter an email address to be used for account recovery into the Point of Contact Email field.

  19. Click Next. The "Review & Create" page opens.

  20. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Finish. The "SSO Setup Complete" page opens.

  21. Click Download Metadata File. The XML file opens in a new tab.

  22. Return to the HPE Greenlake "SSO Setup Complete" page and click Exit. The "Notify All Active Users" pop-up window opens.

  23. Click Skip For Now. The "Authentication" page opens.

  24. On the right side of the page, click Manage Workspace. The "Manage Workspace" page opens.

  25. Return to the Duo Admin Panel. Under "Service Provider", click the Workspace Type drop-down menu and select your workspace type.

  26. In the Duo Admin Panel, type version_1 into the Version field.

  27. Return to the HPE Greenlake "Manage Workspace" page. In your workspace details tile, copy the Workspace ID and paste it into the Duo Admin Panel Platform Customer ID field.

  28. In the Duo Admin Panel, enter 0 into the App ID field.

  29. Return to the HPE Greenlake "Manage Workspace" page. Click the Identity & Access tile. The "Identity & Access" page opens.

  30. Click the Roles & Permissions tile. The "Roles & Permissions" page opens.

  31. In the "Name" column, copy Workspace Administrator and paste it into the Duo Admin Panel Role Name field.

  32. In the Duo Admin Panel, type ALL into the Resource Restriction Policy Name field.

    Duo HPE Greenlake Service Provider Section Fields
  33. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

Learn more about HPE Greenlake SSO at the HPE Greenlake Support Center.

Using SSO

You can log on to HPE Greenlake by navigating to your HPE Greenlake SSO page e.g., https://auth.hpe.com. Click Sign in with SSO. Enter your email address and click Next to be redirected to Duo Single Sign-On to begin authentication.

Active Directory Login

With Active Directory as the Duo SSO authentication source, enter the primary username (email address) on the Duo SSO login page and click or tap Next.

Duo Single Sign-On Login

Enter the AD primary password and click or tap Log in to continue.

Duo Single Sign-On Password

Enable Duo Passwordless to log in to Duo SSO backed by Active Directory authentication without entering a password in the future.

SAML Login

With another SAML identity provider as the Duo SSO authentication source, Duo SSO immediately redirects the login attempt to that SAML IdP for primary authentication. Users do not see the Duo SSO primary login screen.

Duo Authentication

Successful verification of your primary credentials by Active Directory or a SAML IdP redirects back to Duo. Complete Duo two-factor authentication when prompted and then you'll return to HPE Greenlake to complete the login process.

Duo Universal Prompt

* Universal Prompt experience shown.

You can also log into HPE Greenlake using Duo Central, our cloud-hosted portal which allows users to access all of their applications in one spot. Link to HPE Greenlake in Duo Central by adding it as an application tile. Once the tile has been added, log into Duo Central and click the tile for IdP-initiated authentication to HPE Greenlake.

Congratulations! Your HPE Greenlake users now authenticate using Duo Single Sign-On.

See the full user login experience, including expired password reset (available for Active Directory authentication sources) in the Duo End User Guide for SSO.

Enable Remembered Devices

To minimize additional Duo two-factor prompts when switching between HPE Greenlake and your other Duo Single Sign-On SAML applications, be sure to apply a shared "Remembered Devices" policy to your SAML applications.

Troubleshooting

Need some help? Try searching our Knowledge Base articles or Community discussions. For further assistance, contact Support.