The Policy

Policy Walk-Through

1. In this policy a user enters their credentials in the logon page agent.

• Those credentials are collected, stored as the default system session variables of session.logon.last.username and session.logon.last.password.
• The user proceeds down the logon page fallback branch to the AD Auth Agent

2. The AD Auth Agent validates the the username and password session variables against the configured AD Domain Controller.

3. If AD Authentication is successful, the user proceeds down the Successful Branch

   • The AD Query Agent connects to the AD Server to retrieve user attributes (Specificially memberOf)

4. If query succeeds, the user is assigned resourced defined in the AD Group Resource Assign
5. The user is granted access via the Allow Terminal
6. If the AD query fails, the user is denied access via the Deny Terminal
7. If AD Authentication is unsuccessful, the user proceeds down the failback branch to the Deny Terminal

Policy Agent Configuration

The Logon Page contains only the default setting

The AD Auth Agent uses a defined the AD AAA Server object that user will be authenticated against. All Setting are the default.

The AD Query Agent uses the default settings to look for a sAMAccountName that matches the session variable session.logon.last.username.

If a match is found the attributes specified in the Required Attributes section are requested by APM and are returned by Active Directory

The AD Group Resource Assign Agent grants user’s access to resources according to their groups.

:: note. If a user is a member of more than one group the resources assigned are cumulative.

Supporting APM Objects

Network Access Resource

The Properties page contains the Caption name VPN. This is the name displayed to a user

• The Network Settings tab assigns the lease pool of ip addresses that will be used for the VPN
• Split Tunneling is configured to permit only the 10.1.20.0/24 subnet range inside the VPN

Lease Pool

A single address of 10.1.20.254 is assigned inside the lease pool.

Webtop

• A Full Webtop was defined with modified default settings.
• The Minimize to Tray box was checked to ensure when a user connects to the VPN the Webtop is not displayed

Webtop Sections

A single section is configured to display a custom name.

Portal Access Resources

• The Application URI field contains the URL of the resource

• Destination field contains the hostname of the application
• Path is set to /* for all paths
• The port is set to 443

The Policy from a user’s perspective

User1

1. User1 is presented a logon page to collect AD credentials

   

2. User1 is presented resources based on their Sales Engineering group membership

   

User2

1. User2 is presented a logon page to collect AD Credentials

   

2. Uesr2 is presented resources based on the Product Management group membership