Nile Cloud Radius Integration with Intune

6 min

Overview

The Nile Cloud Radius integration with Microsoft Intune is a mandatory step if Intune is to be used in the Radius policies. The integration setup consists of the following steps:

Create a new App registration in Entra ID with appropriate Intune and Microsoft Graph permissions

Copy and Paste the Tenant ID, Client ID and Secret from the newly created Entra ID App

Requirements

Entra ID user with roles to create new application registrations, add Microsoft Graph and Intune API permissions and grant those permisions to the app registration

Administrator access to the Nile Control Center (Nile Portal)

Configuration

The integration of cloud Radius with Microsoft Intune consists of the following tasks:

Create a new app registration and collect the following parameters:

Application (client) ID

Directory (tenant) ID

Client secret

Add the appropriate API read permissions to Microsoft Graph and Intune

Login to Nile Control Center and fill up the Intune configuration using the parameters collected from the app registration

Entra ID App registration

In the left pane, expand the Entra ID menu option, and click "App registrations"

In the App registrations window, select New registration

On the Register an application page, type the Name and click the Register button

Save the Application (client) ID and the Directory (tenant) ID to a text editor to copy and paste on the Nile Control Center Intune configuration page

In the left pane, click on Certificates & secrets to generate a secret key

Click on New client secret to add a client secret In the pop up window, enter a description and select the expiration period, then click the Add button

Save the Value to a text editor to copy and paste on the Nile Control Center Intune configuration page

In the left pane, click API permissions to access the permissions page

Click the Add a permission button to start adding read API permissions to the Nile cloud as a client one by one as per the following list

Once all listed permissions are added, click the Grant admin consent for Default Directory button to apply the admin consent to all permissions

Nile Intune Configuration

Navigate to GLOBAL SETTINGS > Identity, and select the Intune Configuration page

Fill up the Provider Tenant ID, Client ID and Secret with the information saved earlier when creating the Entra ID app registration, and click the SAVE button

Once the configuration has been saved, click the TEST button to validate the Intune connection