Accessing Live Platform portal using Microsoft Azure MFA

Logging into the Live Platform Operation Center portal interface is secured using Azure Authentication with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Accessing the Operation Center portal using your Azure tenant credentials initially requires you to login with the Global admin credentials of your Microsoft Entra ID tenant. This action establishes a connection with Microsoft Entra ID and creates an Enterprise application. During this process, the Global admin must authorize access for Live Platform to your tenant resources in Microsoft Entra ID. Once the Enterprise application is created, you can assign Live Platform Security roles to Live Platform Operation Center portal users.

Perform this procedure with "Global Admin" permissions for the consenting tenant.
The Live Platform user does not require the assignment of any Microsoft Entra ID roles.
Access to the Operation Center portal supports Multi-Factor Authentication if your M365 tenant is configured for MFA.
To login using Azure authentication:
1. In your Web browser enter the Live Platform Operation Center portal URL.
2. Click Sign In.

3. Click Login with Microsoft.

4. Select the Global Admin account of the Channel tenant.

5. Enter Username and Password and then click Sign In.
6. You are prompted to authenticate your account using Microsoft Authenticator. Follow instructions to add the Global Admin user to the Microsoft Authenticator.

7. Once setup, you are prompted to enter code on the Authenticator app on your mobile device, a screen similar to the following is displayed; complete the authentication process.

8. Enter the credentials of the Global Admin user. The Azure authentication and Permissions request dialog is displayed:

9. Select the Consent on Behalf of your organization check box and then click Accept.

The Live Platform Operation Center portal login screen is displayed with "Login Failed" message.

10. Login to Microsoft Entra ID with your Global Admin user and navigate to the newly created Enterprise application.

11. Click to open the new Enterprise application and then in the Navigation pane, select ManageUsers and groups.

12. Click Add user/group.

13. In the left pane, select the None Selected link under Users and groups, in the Users and groups dialog, select the user for which you wish to add an assignment, and then click Select.

The user is selected, see "1 user selected" below.

14. Under the Select a role link, click the None Selected link.

15. In the right pane, select the relevant role (Admin, Monitor or Operator) for the user and then click Select:

16. Click Select to confirm selection.

17. Click Assign. The assigned user is displayed in the screen below.

18. Access the Live Platform Operation Center portal URL.
19. Click Sign In.

20. Click Login with Microsoft.

21. Enter the Username and Password of the user that you added to the Enterprise application and then click Sign in.
22. You will be prompted to authenticate your account using Microsoft Authenticator. A screen similar to the following is displayed. Follow the steps to configure the user account in the Microsoft Authenticator.

Once successfully logged in, the Live Platform dashboard is displayed.

Dashboard Screen Elements

 

Element

Description

 

Service Provider Logo

The Service Provider logo (uploaded by SysAdmin in Service Provider Tenant settings).

 

Menu Bar

Menu bar options: 

Dashboard (see below)
Topology
Alarms (see Monitoring Alarms from Customer Service Sites)
Performance Monitoring
Quality of Experience (see Monitoring Voice Quality Statistics from Customer Tenant Sites)
Users (see Managing M365 Users)
System
Service Request (see Managing Service Requests)

Message Notifications

Banner displaying Live Platform maintenance messages to keep you informed about system updates and scheduled maintenance.

Notifications

A list of notifications for alarms raised on the Microsoft 365 platform and for system tasks statuses.

Active Alarms Summary

Summary of Critical, Major, Minor and Warning alarms.

SIP Connections Calls Statistics (Real Time)

Summary of SBC Calls Statistics for all managed customers and services.

Teams Calls Statistics (Real Time)

Summary of Microsoft Teams Calls Statistics for all managed customers and services.

Services By Types

Shows the breakdown of deployed managed services.

Operators Actions menu: Displays the logged in operator credentials and when clicked opens additional menu options.

Tenant Scope

Indicates the Service Provider Tenant Scope. In the example figure, the Service Provider tenant is 'Live Platform'.

Additional options

Account (what is this ??)
Explore (what is this ??)
Debug Mode: Enables the collection of log files for Web interface activity.
Workspace Manager: Enables you to activate the Workspace functionality. Operators can save their workspace, i.e., they can save their GUI contexts such as filters, Network Map zoom positions, column widths, etc. The feature can be enabled manually or automatically. After logging out or after the browser is closed, all saved GUI contexts are retrieved the next time the operator logs in. Best practice is to save the workspace you’re currently performing operations in, so re-accessing it is quick and effortless.
Logout: Logs out the currently logged in user.
About: Short description of the installed product version.

Service Provider Summary

Link to Customers page

Link to Customers page.

Link to Channels page

Link to the Channels page.

Link to Services page

Opens the Services page of the Customer.

Users Count

Summary of the total number of managed users for all service types and link to the User Details page.

This value is only applicable for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and Operator Connect Hosted Essentials Plus and Operator Connect Hosted Po license tiers. For all other services, 0 is displayed.

 

DID Usage Summary

The aggregated number of assigned phone numbers and the total number of available numbers for all service types that are attached to the Service Provider.

Link to AD User's Location page

The number of Active Directory user locations of the users managed by the provider’s customers and links to a statistics summary screen for these entities.

This value is only relevant for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and Operator Connect Hosted Essentials Plus and Operator Connect Hosted Po license tiers.

Zoom Customers

The number of New (leads) and Active Zoom customers.

Operator Connect Number Management Page

Link to the Operator Connect Number Management page in the AudioCodes Live Portal displaying the numbers that are connected and assigned to operators. See Operator Connect Number Management.

Operator Connect Customer Summary

Link to the Operator Connect Customer Leads page in the AudioCodes Live Portal displaying the new and existing customers. See Managing Leads and Tenant Services.

DM Endpoints

Summary of the number of disconnected endpoints and the total number of deployed endpoints and link to Device Manager page.