Cisco Meraki SAML Integration Failure due to the Missing Username or Role Attributes

Overview

This article explains the potential causes of login failures to the Cisco Meraki dashboard integrated with Auth0 SAML Addon. The Meraki application rejects login attempts due to missing username or role failure.

Solution

  1. The following claims have to be added in the SAML response using an Action or on the SAML Addon configuration
https://dashboard.meraki.com/saml/attributes/username
https://dashboard.meraki.com/saml/attributes/role
  1. typedAttributes needs to be set to false on the SAML Addon configuration
{
  "typedAttributes" : false
}