With Single Sign-On (SSO), a user can log in with a single ID and password to gain access to any of several related systems. It’s a convenient, centralized way to manage security and access control to applications. For the last couple of years we’ve supported SSO access to customer accounts on the main Kentik portal. Now we also allow Kentik customers to enable SSO for their My Kentik Portal tenants.

Customers who use this new feature will provision tenants on their existing SSO platform, so tenants will be authenticated at login using SSO instead of local user credentials. To configure tenant SSO, you’ll have to have an existing identity provider account or in-house identity management system (see SSO Config Prerequisites), and also be a Super Admin for your organization (see About Super Admin Users).

Tenant SSO is activated in the Kentik Detect portal on the Admin » My Kentik Portal page. At the bottom of the My Kentik Portal Settings pane (below the Save button) you’ll see the “info” notice shown below. Click the My Kentik Portal Single Sign-on Settings link.

In the resulting My Kentik Portal Single Sign-on page (shown below) fill in the fields as described in the KB topic Tenant SSO Settings.

For assistance with getting SSO correctly configured for your tenants (or your own organization), please contact our Customer Success team.