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Creating and Managing Authorized Connections in Onna

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In this article you will learn: 

 

How to Create an Authorized Connection

In Onna, admins are able to create an authorized connection for enterprise data sources using login credentials for source accounts . Currently, you are able to create an authorized connection for the following connectors: 

  • Box Enterprise
  • Dropbox Business
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft Outlook Enterprise
  • Microsoft Teams Enterprise
  • Quip Enterprise
  • Slack Enterprise

Additionally, if you want to create an In-Place Preservation via the Onna platform you will need to create a separate authorized connection for the connector you would like to use. Currently, you can create In-Place Preservation authorized connections for the following connectors: 

  • Google Workspace
  • Slack Enterprise 

To establish an authorized connection follow the steps below: 

 

Step 1: 

Navigate to your user profile menu and select ‘Authorized connections’.

 

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Step 2: 

Click the arrow next to ‘Enterprise sources’

 

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Step 3: 

You will now see the following: 

  1. A list of admin credentials for existing authorized connections
  2. A list of In-place preservation credentials for existing IPP authorized connections

To add a new authorized connection click on ‘Add Admin Credentials’ (c).

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Step 4: 

Select the connector you want to add credentials for from the list (a). If you want to create In-Place Preservations using Google Workspace or Slack Enterprise, toggle to ‘yes’ next to ‘Grant Access to Slack Legal Holds or Grant Access to Google Vault’ (b). 


Next, click the blue ‘Connect’ button. Onna will then redirect to the connector OAuth flow. You may need a specific type of credentials depending on the source you selected. To learn more about the requirements for your connector visit our Connectors page. 

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How to Share an Authorized Connection

If a user, with the proper permissions, does not have access to the login credentials to the enterprise connector account, these credentials can be securely shared by the admin who created the authorized connection. This way any user that has either an admin role or member role with the ‘Manage enterprise sources’ special permission can create source syncs using enterprise connectors. To share an authorized connector with another Onna admin, follow the steps below:

 

Step 1: 

From inside the ‘Enterprise sources’ section of the ‘Authorized connections’ page click on the ellipsis next to the source you want to share. 

 

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Step 2: 

Select ‘Share credentials’ from the dropdown menu that appears. 

 

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Step 3: 

Next, a share window will appear. From here, add the names of Onna admins you would like to share your authorized connection with (a). 


Then, click on the blue ‘Share’ button (b). 

 

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How to Suspend Adding for User

After you have shared an authorized connection, there may be instances where you want to remove the ability of a user to continue adding sources using the authorized connection, but you want the existing sources that the user has previously set up using the connection to continue to sync. In this case you would suspend adding for the user. To do so, follow the steps below: 

 

Step 1: 

From inside the connector listed in the ‘Enterprise sources’ section of the ‘Authorized connections’ page click on the ellipsis next to the user you want to suspend adding for. 

 

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Step 2: 

Select ‘Suspend adding’ from the dropdown menu that appears. 

 

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Step 3:
After selecting ‘Supend adding’ you’ll see a pop-up appear asking you to confirm that you want to suspend adding for the user. To confirm click on the blue arrow. 

 

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How to Revoke an Authorized Connection

In instances where you’ve shared an authorized connection and want to prevent the user from adding new sources with the connection and stop the syncing of existing sources you can revoke the authorized connection from the user. Doing this will not remove the existing sources that the user set up with the connection, but it will stop any further syncing of those sources.

To revoke an authorized connection, follow the steps below: 

 

Step 1: 

From inside the connector listed in the ‘Enterprise sources’ section of the ‘Authorized connections’ page click on the ellipsis next to the user you want to revoke credentials for. 

 

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Step 2: 

Select ‘Revoked’ from the dropdown menu that appears. 

 

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Step 3: 

After selecting ‘Revoked’ you’ll see a pop-up appear asking you to confirm that you want to revoke credentials from the user. To confirm click on the blue arrow. 

 

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How to Revoke All Access for an Authorized Connection

Once an authorized connection has been established and shared you have the option of revoke access to the authorized connection from all users it was shared with and delete the credentials. To do this you will revoke all. To revoke all, follow the steps below: 

 

Step 1: 

From inside the ‘Enterprise sources’ section of the ‘Authorized connections’ page click on the ellipsis next to the source you want to revoke all for. 

 

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Step 2:
Select ‘Revoke all’ from the dropdown menu that appears. 

 

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Step 3: 

After selecting ‘Revoke all’ you’ll see a pop-up appear asking you to confirm that you want to revoke all shares and the credentials. To confirm click the blue arrow. 

 

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Authorized Connection Video Tutorial

 

For a short video overview of Authorized Connections in Onna, please see below:

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