Set Up ArcGIS Portal

ArcGIS Portal is the Schneider Electric and Esri recommended best practice for authentication as it requires single sign-on (SSO) access to Portal for ArcGIS-federated feature services. This conveniently allows users signing into GDBM XI to be automatically authenticated to feature services secured by Portal for ArcGIS.

Setting up authentication using this methodology can vary from organization to organization, depending on their particular needs. One common task, however, is deciding which users will be administrators and which will be viewers and grouping the users appropriately. Schneider Electric needs this information in order to map your groups to our roles, which can be accomplished in several ways. If your portal is internal (behind a firewall), you must configure a reverse proxy or some firewall rules that let Auth0 communicate directly with the portal’s Oauth2 token endpoint (/sharing/oauth2/token) as well as to the self endpoint (/sharing/rest/community/self).

The distinct advantage is that in the event you use built-in users or AD FS, usernames and passwords that are already set up in Portal for ArcGIS can be used to log in to the GDBM XI application.

To set up this authentication, you need to provision your tenant and federate your portal against an ArcGIS Server instance.