Set up Adobe connector

C1 provides identity governance and just-in-time provisioning for Adobe. Integrate your Adobe instance with C1 to run user access reviews (UARs) and enable just-in-time access requests.

Availability

This connector requires Adobe enterprise-level licenses. Standard Creative Cloud or individual Adobe product licenses are not supported.

Capabilities

Resource	Sync	Provision
Accounts
Groups
Product profiles

Additional functionality:

The Adobe connector supports automatic account provisioning and deprovisioning.

Product profiles are synced with license seat data — purchased seats (from the profile’s license quota) and consumed seats (from its member count) — so you can track license utilization per product.

Limitations

• Product profiles cannot be created through the connector. Adobe’s User Management API does not support creating product profiles; create them in the Adobe Admin Console. The connector syncs existing product profiles and provisions membership only.
• Email addresses are case-sensitive. Adobe’s User Management API treats user email addresses as case-sensitive. Provisioning actions must use the exact casing Adobe has on file, or they will not match the intended user.

Account provisioning

The Adobe connector supports creating new user accounts directly from C1. When configuring an account provisioning policy, you can map the following fields.

Required fields

Field	Description
email	The user’s email address. Used as the login identifier in Adobe.

Optional fields

Field	Description	Default
identity_type	The type of Adobe identity to create. Must be one of federatedID, enterpriseID, or adobeID. See Identity types below.	federatedID
first_name	The user’s first name. Required when identity_type is federatedID or enterpriseID.	None
last_name	The user’s last name. Required when identity_type is federatedID or enterpriseID.	None
country	Two-letter ISO 3166-1 country code (for example, US). Required when identity_type is federatedID.	None

Identity types

Adobe’s User Management API supports three identity types. Choose the one that matches how your organization manages the user’s email domain.

Value	Description
federatedID	For users whose email domain is owned and federated by your Adobe organization (SAML/SSO). first_name, last_name, and country are required. Use this for employees whose identity is managed through your identity provider.
enterpriseID	For users managed directly by your Adobe organization without federated SSO. first_name and last_name are required; country is optional.
adobeID	For users with a personal Adobe ID, typically external collaborators whose email domain is not claimed by any Adobe organization. All fields are optional.

adobeID cannot be used for email domains owned by another Adobe organization. If the user’s email domain is claimed by another organization’s federated or enterprise directory, Adobe will reject the request with an error. In that case, the user must be provisioned by the organization that owns the domain, or use federatedID / enterpriseID if your organization owns the domain.

Gather Adobe credentials

Configuring the connector requires you to pass in credentials generated in Adobe. Gather these credentials before you move on.

Important

A user with the System Administrator or Product Administrator role in Adobe Admin Console must perform this task.

Look up your organization ID

1. In the Adobe Admin console, navigate to Settings > Organization.

2. Make a note of your organization ID (it’s in ABC123@AdobeOrg format).

Create a new OAuth Server-to-Server credential

1. In the Adobe Admin console, create a new project.

2. Click Add API and select User Management API.

   • To give C1 sync-only (READ) access, give the User Management API read access
   • To give C1 sync and provision (READ/WRITE) access, give the User Management API read/write access and Product Profile management permissions
3. Choose the OAuth Server-to-Server authentication type.

4. Click Save configured API.

5. Locate the Credentials section of the project and carefully copy and save the client ID and client secret.

Done. Next, move on to the connector configuration instructions.

Configure the Adobe connector

To complete this task, you’ll need:

• The Connector Administrator or Super Administrator role in C1
• Access to the set of Adobe credentials generated by following the instructions above

Cloud-hosted

Follow these instructions to use a built-in, no-code connector hosted by C1.

1. In C1, navigate to Integrations > Connectors and click Add connector.

2. Search for Adobe and click Add.

3. Choose how to set up the new Adobe connector:

   • Add the connector to a currently unmanaged app (select from the list of apps that were discovered in your identity, SSO, or federation provider that aren’t yet managed with C1)
   • Add the connector to a managed app (select from the list of existing managed apps)
   • Create a new managed app
4. Set the owner for this connector. You can manage the connector yourself, or choose someone else from the list of C1 users. Setting multiple owners is allowed. If you choose someone else, C1 will notify the new connector owner by email that their help is needed to complete the setup process.

5. Click Next.

6. Find the Settings area of the page and click Edit.

7. Paste the client ID, client secret, and organization ID into the relevant fields.

8. Click Save.

9. The connector’s label changes to Syncing, followed by Connected. You can view the logs to ensure that information is syncing.

Done. Your Adobe connector is now pulling access data into C1.

Self-hosted

Follow these instructions to use the Adobe connector, hosted and run in your own environment.

When running in service mode on Kubernetes, a self-hosted connector maintains an ongoing connection with C1, automatically syncing and uploading data at regular intervals. This data is immediately available in the C1 UI for access reviews and access requests.

Resources

• Official download center: For stable binaries (Windows/Linux/macOS) and container images.

Step 1: Set up a new Adobe connector

1. In C1, navigate to Integrations > Connectors > Add connector.

2. Search for Baton and click Add.

3. Choose how to set up the new Adobe connector:

   • Add the connector to a currently unmanaged app (select from the list of apps that were discovered in your identity, SSO, or federation provider that aren’t yet managed with C1)
   • Add the connector to a managed app (select from the list of existing managed apps)
   • Create a new managed app
4. Set the owner for this connector. You can manage the connector yourself, or choose someone else from the list of C1 users. Setting multiple owners is allowed. If you choose someone else, C1 will notify the new connector owner by email that their help is needed to complete the setup process.

5. Click Next.

6. In the Settings area of the page, click Edit.

7. Click Rotate to generate a new Client ID and Secret. Carefully copy and save these credentials. We’ll use them in Step 2.

Step 2: Create Kubernetes configuration files

Create two Kubernetes manifest files for your Adobe connector deployment:

Secrets configuration

# baton-adobe-secrets.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: baton-adobe-secrets
type: Opaque
stringData:
  # C1 credentials
  BATON_CLIENT_ID: <C1 client ID>
  BATON_CLIENT_SECRET: <C1 client secret>
  
  # Adobe credentials
  BATON_ADOBE_CLIENT_ID: <Your Adobe client ID>
  BATON_ADOBE_CLIENT_SECRET: <Your Adobe client secret>
  BATON_ADOBE_ORGANIZATION_ID: <Your Adobe organization ID>

  # Optional: include if you want C1 to provision access using this connector
  BATON_PROVISIONING: "true"

See the connector’s README or run --help to see all available configuration flags and environment variables.

Deployment configuration

# baton-adobe.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: baton-adobe
  labels:
    app: baton-adobe
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: baton-adobe
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: baton-adobe
        baton: "true"
        baton-app: adobe
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: baton-adobe
        image: public.ecr.aws/conductorone/baton-adobe:latest
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        env:
        - name: BATON_HOST_ID
          value: baton-adobe
        envFrom:
        - secretRef:
            name: baton-adobe-secrets

Step 3: Deploy the connector

1. Create a namespace in which to run C1 connectors (if desired), then apply the secret config and deployment config files.

2. Check that the connector data uploaded correctly. In C1, click Apps. On the Managed apps tab, locate and click the name of the application you added the Adobe connector to. Adobe data should be found on the Entitlements and Accounts tabs.

Done. Your Adobe connector is now pulling access data into C1.