Meraki cloud app

1. Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Web and mobile apps .
3. Click Add app Search for apps.
4. For Enter app name, enter Meraki.
5. In the search results, point to Merakiand click Select.
6. In the Google Identity Provider detailswindow, copy the Certificateand use it to calculate a fingerprint using the SHA-1 algorithm.
7. Click Continue.
8. On the Service provider detailspage, for  ACS URL, replace  {consumer-url-provided-by-sp}with your Meraki consumer URL. 
9. In the Attribute Mappingwindow, click Select fieldand map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Meraki attributes. The role and username attributes are required:
   

   Google directory attribute	Meraki attribute
   Role > Role in Meraki	role
   Basic Information > First Name	username

10. (Optional) To add additional mappings, click Add Mappingand select the fields that you need to map.
11. (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:

    1. For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
    2. Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
    3. For App attribute, enter the corresponding groups attribute name of the service provider.

    Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response includes only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to  About group membership mapping .

12. Click  Finish.

1. Open an Incognito browser window, go to the Meraki sign-in page, and sign in with your Meraki administrator account.
2. Go to Organization Settings.
3. In the SAML SSOlist, for  SAML Configuration, select SAML SSO enabled.
4. For  X.509 cert SHA1 fingerprint, enter the SHA-1 fingerprint that you calculated in Step 1.
5. Click Save Changes .

Before you begin: To turn a service on or off for certain users, put their accounts in an organizational unit (to control access by department) or add them to an access group (to allow access for users across or within departments).

1. Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Web and mobile apps .
3. Click  Meraki.
4. Click  User access.

5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click  On for everyoneor  Off for everyone, and then click  Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select  Onor  Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to  Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to  Overridden, either click Inheritto revert to the same setting as its parent, or click  Saveto keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Learn more about organizational structure .
7. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to  Customize service access using access groups .
8. Ensure that your Meraki user account email domains match the primary domain of your organization’s managed Google Account.

Meraki only supports identity provider-initiated SSO. You can’t use SSO if you sign in directly to Meraki.

Verify identity provider-initiated SSO

1. Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Web and mobile apps .
3. Click Meraki.
4. In the Merakisection, click Test SAML Login. 
   
   The app should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, troubleshoot the error message and try again. For details on troubleshooting, go to SAML app error messages .