> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.superoffice.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The Identity Management Gateway

> The Identity Management Gateway Architecture, User interface, and Pre-requisites

A rules wizard where the administrator can configure rules for how Microsoft Entra (formerly AAD) users shall be configured in SuperOffice.

The **Identity Manager Gateway** is a SCIM connector between Microsoft Entra ID and SuperOffice CRM Online. The user interface aka the SCIM configuration tool is simply called the **Identity Manager**.

## Architecture

![SCIM flow -screenshot][img1]

## User interface

The Identity Manager is a clean, web-based user interface for SCIM identity management. It has 2 tabs: configurations and preview.

### Configurations tab

* **User Sync Rules** pane - the rules wizard
* **SCIM users** pane - a list of users that **can** be synchronized
* **Preview** pane - details for the currently selected user

![SCIM UI configurations tab -screenshot][img2]

### Preview tab

* Number of available Microsoft Entra users
* Number of users synchronized to SuperOffice
* Name and username of each Microsoft Entra user and the access control-related settings that will be applied to each of them given the current ruleset

![SCIM UI preview tab -screenshot][img3]

### Other settings

* User Sync Active (on/off)
* Send Welcome Email (on/off)
* Notifications Email for critical errors (email address)

## Pre-requisites

To access the Identity Manager, you will need:

* **Tenant** configured with **SuperID** - register to [get a developer account in SOD][1]
* A SuperOffice admin account for that tenant linked to a Microsoft Entra account (Microsoft Entra admin not required)

[1]: /en/developer-portal/getting-started/get-access-to-sod

[img1]: /media/loc/en/online/scim-flow-ui.png

[img2]: /media/loc/en/online/scim-config-tab.png

[img3]: /media/loc/en/online/scim-preview-tab.png


## Related topics

- [System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)](/en/online/identity/scim/index.md)
- [Introduction to SuperOffice identity management](/en/online/identity/overview.md)
- [Federated ID and identity providers](/en/online/identity/federated-id-and-identity-providers.md)
- [Online authentication](/en/online/identity/federated-auth.md)
- [Register With Access Gateway](/en/api/reference/restful/agent/user_agent/register-with-access-gateway.md)
- [Check Access Gateway Registration](/en/api/reference/restful/agent/user_agent/check-access-gateway-registration.md)