Advanced user authentication with SAML
New to Zabbix 5.0 is SAML authentication, a widely used form of authentication in the IT world. We'll be using this as a form of managing passwords for our Zabbix users. Please note that if you've worked with Zabbix before and you've configured LDAP, SAML, like LDAP, allows user authentication with passwords. You still have to create users with their permissions.
Getting ready
To get started with SAML authentication, we will need our configured Zabbix server from the previous recipe. It's important that we have all the configured users from the previous recipe. We will also need something to authenticate with SAML. We will be using Azure Active Directory (AD) SAML.
Make sure to set up users in your (Azure) AD before continuing with this recipe. You can use your existing AD users for authentication, so you can use this recipe with your existing AD setup.
We will be using the s_network user as an example:
