topic User awareness in Spark Firewall (SMB)

User awareness

John_Fleming — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:22:49 GMT

Are there any plans to make User Awareness more usable? We can't use it in our setup because we have static services that need to be allowed as well as other services we want to use the authentication portal with. Last time we looked any host/network using User Awareness requires ALL access to be mapped through an identity with o way around this.

To be clear this a self managed 1500. This isn't an issue with access roles and a policy from a SMS/MDS.

Re: User awareness

G_W_Albrecht — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:42:42 GMT

UA has Browser-Based Authentication: You can configure the Browser-Based Authentication to appear for all traffic but because this method of identification is not seamless to the end users, it is commonly configured to appear when you access only specific network resources or the Internet to avoid the overhead required from end users when they identify themselves.

Select if unidentified users are redirected to captive portal for All traffic or Specific destinations. Under Specific destinations, select Internet or Selected network objects. If you select Selected network objects, select the objects from the list or create new objects.

Re: User awareness

John_Fleming — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:29:31 GMT

Sorry, but I'm failing to understand how this is useful.