Adobe Provisioning: Adding Config and Private Key

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Adobe Configuration

You can either create a project on your own and provide us with the information listed in the following config file example or assign us a role to do so. If you want to create your own project, you can follow the procedure shown below:

Information needed for configuration:

  • Federated domain
  • Organization id
  • Client id
  • Client secret
  • Technical account id
  • Private key

The information can be obtained from the following steps

Step 1: Create a project in Adobe developer console

After successfully logging in to Adobe Developer Console, you arrive at the Home screen. This is where you can find quick start links to create a project or download resources, view and edit your public profile, and access the Projects and Downloads screens using the top navigation.

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Step 2: Add an API to the project using Service Account (JWT)

The home screen provides "quick start" links to help you get started with some of the most common Console actions. Quick start links are available for: creating a new project, creating a project using a template, and downloading resources. Click “Create new project” to start

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Step 3: Create a User Management API

Scroll down to select User Management API and click Next

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Step 4: Generate a key pair

Select OPTION 1 generate a key pair, click Next, and then save the downloaded config.zip (containing the public key and private key) for future use

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Step 5: Save API

Click Save configured API

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Select User Management API from APIs on the sidebar

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Click Retrieve client secret to get client secret

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Save client id, client secret, technical account id, organization id for configuration

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Open Cloudwork, click Adobe Coherent Cloud

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Go to Adobe page

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Click add new config details

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Fill Org Id, Client Id, Client Secret, Tech Acct, and leave it for a while

Step 6: Get the domain information for config

Log in to Adobe administrator console

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Click Settings

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Click Domains

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The domain is needed for the configuration to retrieve users from a domain linked to an organization through the Trusted Domain relationship, the domain will match the email domain. Copy a domain matching the school’s email domain.

Go back to the form, and paste the domain. Submit.

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You can see the flash “New Config Created”, and Private Key Uploaded is still no.

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Head back to the Adobe page, you can see the updated config list.

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The next step is to upload the private key

Check the format of the private key, and click Choose file to upload the selected private key

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The uploaded file should end with .key

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And the file should exactly follow the format in the example

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If the uploaded file is not compatible with input config details, you will be redirected to the Adobe page and seeing the red flashing message

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If successful, you will be redirected to the Adobe page and see the green flashing

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Click on the domain, you will see the private key uploaded has been changed to “yes”


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