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Integrate with Snowflake

Use JumpCloud SAML Single Sign On (SSO) to give your users convenient but secure access to all their web applications with a single set of credentials. Provision, update, and deprovision users in Snowflake in real-time from JumpCloud using the Identity Management (SCIM) integration. Leverage this integration for centralized and automated user lifecycle management and improved security related to user changes and user offboarding.

Read this article to learn how to configure the Snowflake integration.

Prerequisites

  • A JumpCloud administrator account.
  • JumpCloud SSO Package or higher or SSO à la carte option.
  • A Snowflake user account with administrative permissions.
  • Snowflake account-name/alias

SCIM Important Considerations

  • SSO is recommended, but not required.
  • If you deactivate the Identity Management on your Snowflake application, previously bound users remain active in Snowflake and able to authenticate using SSO. No further updates will be made to user accounts via the Identity Management integration.
  • The access token is valid for six months. If you need to update your token, you must deactivate the IdM integration, update the token, and then reactivate the IdM integration.
  • List of users is not supported.
  • Snowflake supports a maximum of 500 requests per account per SCIM endpoint. After your account exceeds this threshold, Snowflake returns a 429 HTTP status code (i.e. too many requests).

Attribute Considerations

  • A default set of attributes are managed for users. See the Attribute Mappings section for more details.
  • Filter by email is not supported (use userName instead).
  • Groups are supported.

Creating a new JumpCloud Application Integration

  1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
  2. Navigate to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
  3. Click + Add New Application.
  4. Type the name of the application in the Search field and select it.
  5. Click Next.
  6. In the Display Label, type your name for the application. Optionally, you can enter a Description, adjust the User Portal Image and choose to hide or Show in User Portal.

Note:

If this is a Bookmark Application, enter your sign-in URL in the Bookmark URL field.

  1. Click Save Application.
  2. If successful, click:
    • Configure Application and go to the next section.
    • Close to configure your new application at a later time.

Configuring the SSO Integration

To configure JumpCloud

  1. Create a new application or select it from the Configured Applications list.
  2. Select the SSO tab.
  3. Replace any instances of ACCOUNT_NAME with your Snowflake account name.
  4. Add or change any desired attributes.
  5. Click save.

Download the certificate

  1. Find your application in the Configured Applications list and click anywhere in the row to reopen its configuration window.
  2. Select the SSO tab and click IDP Certificate Valid > Download certificate.

Tip:

The certificate.pem will download to your local Downloads folder.

To configure Snowflake

Note:

Snowflake requires the following information to enable federated authentication:

  1. IDP SSO URL
  2. IDP Certificate
  1. Log into your Snowflake account.
  2. As a user with the ACCOUNTADMIN role, execute an ALTER ACCOUNT command:

use role accountadmin;
alter account set saml_identity_provider = '{
"certificate": "<IDP CERTIFICATE>", -- remove Tags ‘-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----' & ‘-----END CERTIFICATE-----'
"ssoUrl": "<IDP SSO URL>", --example: https://sso.jumpcloud.com/saml2/snowflake
"type": "Custom"
}';

Tip:

If you wish to use an organization URL, please follow the instructions to migrate the SAML configuration to the security integration to support both SAML 2.0 and the new format URL.

Authorizing User SSO Access

Users are implicitly denied access to applications. After you connect an application to JumpCloud, you need to authorize user access to that application. You can authorize user access from the Application Configuration panel or from the Groups Configuration panel. 

To authorize user access from the Application Configuration panel

  1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
  2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications, then select the application to which you want to authorize user access.
  3. Select the User Groups tab. If you need to create a new group of users, see Get Started: User Groups.
  4. Select the check box next to the group of users you want to give access.
  5. Click save. 

To learn how to authorize user access from the Groups Configuration panel, see Authorize Users to an SSO Application.

Validating SSO authentication workflow(s)

IdP Initiated

  • Access the JumpCloud User Console.
  • Select the application’s tile.
  • The application will launch and login the user.

SP Initiated

  • Navigate to your Service Provider application URL.
  • You will be redirected to log in to the JumpCloud User Portal.
  • The browser will be redirected back to the application and be automatically logged in.

Configuring the Identity Management Integration

To configure Snowflake

Create a Custom SCIM Security Integration and API Token

The Snowflake configuration process creates a SCIM security integration to allow users and roles created in the identity provider to be owned by the GENERIC_SCIM_PROVISIONER SCIM role in Snowflake and creates an access token to use in SCIM API requests. The access token is valid for six months. Upon expiration, create a new access token manually using SYSTEM$GENERATE_SCIM_ACCESS_TOKEN as shown below.

Note:

To invalidate an existing access token for a SCIM integration, execute a DROP INTEGRATION statement.

To continue using SCIM with Snowflake, recreate the SCIM integration with a CREATE SECURITY INTEGRATION statement and generate a new access token using SYSTEM$GENERATE_SCIM_ACCESS_TOKEN.

  1. Execute the following SQL statements in your preferred Snowflake client.

use role accountadmin;
create role if not exists generic_scim_provisioner;
grant create user on account to role generic_scim_provisioner;
grant create role on account to role generic_scim_provisioner;
grant role generic_scim_provisioner to role accountadmin;
create or replace security integration generic_scim_provisioning
type=scim
scim_client='generic'
run_as_role='GENERIC_SCIM_PROVISIONER';
select system$generate_scim_access_token('GENERIC_SCIM_PROVISIONING');

Managing SCIM Network Policies

The SCIM network policy has its own setting so that the SCIM provider can be specifically allowed to provision users and groups without adding these IP addresses for normal user access.

Setting up a network policy specific to the SCIM integration allows SCIM to be distinct from other network policies that may apply to the Snowflake account. The SCIM network policy does not affect other network policies on the account nor do other account network policies affect the SCIM network policy. Therefore, the SCIM network policy allows the Snowflake SCIM integration to provision users and groups as intended.

After creating the SCIM security integration, create the SCIM network policy using this command:

alter security integration generic_scim_provisioning set network_policy;

Where:

  • generic_scim_provisioning – specifies the name of the Custom SCIM security integration.
  • scim_network_policy – specifies the Custom SCIM network policy in Snowflake.

Note:

For more information, see Network Policies and ALTER SECURITY INTEGRATION.

Using Secondary Roles with SCIM

Snowflake supports setting the user property DEFAULT_SECONDARY_ROLES to 'ALL' with SCIM to allow users to use secondary roles in a Snowflake session.

For a representative example, see PUT scim/v2/Users/{id}.

Replicating the Custom SCIM Security Integration

Snowflake supports replication and failover/failback with the SCIM security integration from the source account to the target account.

For details, see Replication of Security Integrations & Network Policies Across Multiple Accounts.

To configure JumpCloud

  1. Create a new application or select it from the Configured Applications list.
  2. Select the Identity Management tab.
  3. Click Configure to expand the Configuration Settings.
  4. You’re presented with two fields:
    • Base URL: https://<account-name/alias>.snowflakecomputing.com/scim/v2
    • Token Key: Paste the authorization token generated in the previous section.
  5. Click Activate.
  6. If successful, click save.
  7. You will receive a confirmation that the Identity Management integration has been successfully verified.

Note:

The SCIM token expires every 6 months. Take note of the expiration date and plan to generate a new token and key ahead of this date. See Create a New Access Token After Expiration.

Attribute Mappings

The following table lists attributes that JumpCloud sends to the application. See Attribute Considerations for more information regarding attribute mapping considerations. 

Learn about JumpCloud Properties and how they work with system users in our API. 

Snowflake User Attributes

JumpCloud Property JumpCloud UI SCIM v2 Mapping Snowflake Value Type
email Email id* id string
email Company Email userName userName, loginName string
firstname First Name name.givenName firstName string
lastname Last Name name.familyName familyName string
email Company Email emails: value email string
displayName displayName displayName displayName string
password password password password string
!suspended && !passwordExpired N/A active disabled boolean
N/A N/A meta.created createdON string
N/A N/A meta.lastModified lastModified string

Group Attributes

JumpCloud Property JumpCloud UI Field Name SCIM v2 Mapping Application Value
name Name displayName Name

Group Management Considerations

Enabling Group Management

You must select the Enable management of User Groups and Group Membership in this application option to manage groups and group membership in the application from JumpCloud.

Group Provisioning and Syncing 
  • Empty groups are not created.
  • JumpCloud takes over management of existing groups in the application when the user group name in JumpCloud matches the name of the group in the application.
  • All user groups associated with the application in JumpCloud are synced. Syncing occurs whenever there is a membership or group change event.
  • Group renaming is supported.
  • If a user group is disassociated from the application in JumpCloud, syncing immediately stops and the group is left as-is in the application. All members of that user group are deactivated in the application unless they are associated with another active application group that is managed from JumpCloud.
Group Deletion
  • Managed groups deleted in JumpCloud are deleted in the application.
  • All members of the deleted group are deactivated in the application, unless they are associated with another active application group that is managed from JumpCloud.
Disabling Group Management
  • You can disable group and group membership management by unchecking the Enable management of User Groups and Group Membership in this application option.
  • The managed groups and group membership are left as-is in the application.
  • JumpCloud stops sending group membership information for the user, but the user’s identity will continue to be managed from JumpCloud.

Importing Users

This functionality is helpful if users have already been created in the application but have not been created in JumpCloud.

  1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
  2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
  3. Search for the application and click to open its configuration panel. 
  4. Select the Identity Management tab.
  5. Click manual import.
  6. Select the users you want to create in JumpCloud from the application from the list of users that appear. Users in the list have two import statuses:
    • New – user has not been imported.
    • Imported – user has been imported and has an account in JumpCloud.

Tip: Try using the New Users-only filter when selecting users to import. This will move all of your new users to the top of the list, making them easier to identify and select.

  1. Click import.
    • If you are importing less than 100 users, your import results will display in real time and you can continue onboarding your users. 
    • If you have more than 100 users being imported, JumpCloud will send you an email when your import is complete.
  1. You can now connect and grant users access to all their JumpCloud resources. Learn more in the Authorize Users to an Application and Connecting Users to Resources articles.

Warning: Imported users must be members of a user group bound to an application for JumpCloud to manage their identity in, and access to, the application.

SCIM Directory Insights Events

The following Directory Insights (DI) events provide visibility into failures and detailed information about the user and group data being added or updated from HR or other external solutions to JumpCloud.

Note:

Customers with no package or the Device Management Package will need to add the Directory Insights à la carte option. Directory Insights is included in all other packages.

SCIM DI Integration Events

Event Name Event Description
idm_integration_activate Logged when an IT admin attempts to activated new SCIM Identity Management integration.
idm_integration_update Logged when an IT admin attempts to update a configured and activated SCIM Identity Management integration.
idm_integration_reauth Logged when an IT admin attempts to change the credentials for an activated SCIM Identity Management integration.
idm_integration_delete Logged when an IT admin attempts to deactivate an activated SCIM Identity Management integration.

SCIM DI User Events

Event Name Event Description
user_create_provision Logged when JumpCloud tries to create a new user in service provider application.
user_update_provision Logged when JumpCloud tries to update an existing user in service provider application.
user_deprovision Logged when JumpCloud tries to change an existing user to inactive in the service provider application.
user_delete_provision Logged when JumpCloud tries to delete an existing user in service provider application.
user_lookup_provision Logged when JumpCloud encounters an issue when trying to lookup a user to determine if the user needs to be created or updated.

SCIM DI Group Events

Event Name Event Description
group_create_provision Logged when JumpCloud tries to create a new group in service provider application.
group_update_provision Logged when JumpCloud tries to update an existing group in service provider application.
group_delete_provision Logged when JumpCloud tries to delete an existing group in service provider application.

Creating a New Access Token After Expiration

Access tokens expire after six months. Upon expiration, create a new access token manually using SYSTEM$GENERATE_SCIM_ACCESS_TOKEN as shown below. 

  1. Invalidate the existing access token for a SCIM integration by executing a DROP INTEGRATION statement.
  2. Recreate the SCIM integration with a CREATE SECURITY INTEGRATION statement and generate a new access token using SYSTEM$GENERATE_SCIM_ACCESS_TOKEN.
  3. Update the token key in the JumpCloud SCIM configuration.

Removing the Integration

Important:

These are steps for removing the integration in JumpCloud. Consult your SP's documentation for any additional steps needed to remove the integration in the SP. Failure to remove the integration successfully for both the SP and JumpCloud may result in users losing access to the application.

To deactivate the IdM Integration

  1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
  2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
  3. Search for the application that you’d like to deactivate and click to open its details panel. 
  4. Under the company name and logo on the left hand panel, click the Deactivate IdM connection link.
  5. Click confirm. 
  6. If successful, you will receive a confirmation message.

To deactivate the SSO Integration

  1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
  2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
  3. Search for the application that you’d like to deactivate and click to open its details panel. 
  4. Select the SSO tab.
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the configuration.
  6. Click Deactivate SSO or Deactivate Bookmark. 
  7. Click save. 
  8. If successful, you will receive a confirmation message.

To delete the application

  1. Log in to the JumpCloud Admin Portal.
  2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
  3. Search for the application that you’d like to delete.
  4. Check the box next to the application to select it.
  5. Click Delete.
  6. Enter the number of the applications you are deleting
  7. Click Delete Application.
  8. If successful, you will see an application deletion confirmation notification.
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