Manual Chapter :
Common Elements for the Access Profile in Access Policy Manager
Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP APM
- 15.0.1, 15.0.0
Common Elements for the Access Profile in Access Policy Manager
- On the Main tab, click.The Access Profiles (Per-Session Policies) screen opens.
- ClickCreate.The New Profile screen opens.
- Select theCustomcheck box forSettings.
- In theNamefield, type a name for the access profile.A access profile name must be unique among all access profile and any per-request policy names.
- In theNamefield, type a name for the access profile.An access profile name must be unique among all per-session profile and per-request policy names.
- From theProfile Typelist, select one these options:
- LTM-APM: Select for a web access management configuration.
- SSL-VPN: Select to configure network access, portal access, or application access. (Most access policy items are available for this type.)
- ALL: Select to support LTM-APM and SSL-VPN access types.
- SSO: Select to configure matching virtual servers for Single Sign-On (SSO).No access policy is associated with this type of access profile
- RDG-RAP: Select to validate connections to hosts behind APM when APM acts as a gateway for RDP clients.
- SWG - Explicit: Select to configure access using Secure Web Gateway explicit forward proxy.
- SWG - Transparent: Select to configure access using Secure Web Gateway transparent forward proxy.
- System Authentication: Select to configure administrator access to the BIG-IP system (when using APM as a pluggable authentication module).
- Identity Service: Used internally to provide identity service for a supported integration. Only APM creates this type of profile.You can edit Identity Service profile properties.
Depending on licensing, you might not see all of these profile types.Additional settings display. - From theProfile Typelist, select one of these options.
- LTM-APM: Select for a web access management configuration.
- SSL-VPN: Select to configure network access, portal access, or application access. (Most access policy items are available for this type.)
- ALL: Select to support LTM-APM and SSL-VPN access types.
Additional settings display. - From theProfile Typelist, selectAll.Additional settings display.
- From theProfile Typelist, selectSSL-VPN.Additional settings display.
- From theProfile Typelist, selectLTM-APM.Additional settings display.
- From theProfile Scopelist, retain the default value or select another.
- Profile: Gives a user access only to resources that are behind the same access profile. This is the default value.
- Virtual Server: Gives a user access only to resources that are behind the same virtual server.
- Global: Gives a user access to resources behind any access profile that has global scope.
- ForSettings, select theCustomcheck box.The settings become available to edit.
- In the Configurations area for theUser Identification Methodfield, retain the default setting,IP Address.
- In the Configurations area for theUser Identification Methodlist, select one of these methods:
- IP Address: Select this method only in an environment where a client IP address is unique and can be trusted.
- Credentials: Select this method to identify users using NTLM authentication.
- To use NTLM authentication before a session starts, from theNTLM Auth Configurationlist select a configuration.For NTLM authentication to work, you must also enable theCaptive Portalssetting and specify an IP address in thePrimary Authentication URIfield for the virtual server that you configure for the captive portal.In the case of a shared machine, an IP address might already be associated with a user or a session. Using NTLM authentication ensures that the system can associate the IP address with the correct session (new or existing) or with a new user each time a user logs on to the shared machine.
- In the Configurations area for theUser Identification Methodlist, select one of these methods.
- IP Address: Select this method only in an environment where a client IP address is unique and can be trusted.
- HTTP: Select to identify the client using HTTP.
- To direct users to a captive portal, forCaptive PortalselectEnabledand, in thePrimary Authentication URIfield, type the URI.You might specify the URI of your primary authentication server if you use single sign-on across multiple domains. Users can then access multiple back-end applications from multiple domains and hosts without needing to re-enter their credentials, because the user session is stored on the primary domain.For example, you might typehttps://logon.siterequest.comin the field.
- To change from using the default-log-settings that APM automatically adds to the access profile, you can do this.:Logging occurs for a session only when a log setting is specified for the access profile.
- Click the name of the access profile.The Properties screen opens.
- On the menu bar, clickLogs.The General Properties screen opens.
- In the Log Settings area, move log settings from theAvailablelist to theSelectedlist.
- ClickUpdate.
You can configure log settings in thearea of the product. - ClickFinished.
- Click the name of the access profile for which you want to edit the access policy.The properties screen opens for the profile you want to edit.
- Click the name of the access profile that you want to edit.The properties screen opens.
- Scroll down to the Configurations area.
- On the menu bar, clickLogs.The access profile log settings display.
- Move log settings between theAvailableandSelectedlists.You can assign up to three log settings that enable access system logging to an access profile. You can assign additional log settings to an access profile provided that they enable logging for URl request logging only.Logging is disabled when theSelectedlist is empty.
- ClickUpdate.
- In the Per-Session Policy column, click theEditlink for the access profile you want to configure.The visual policy editor opens the access policy in a separate screen.
- In the Per-Session Policy column, click theEditlink.The visual policy editor opens the access policy in a separate screen.
- On the menu bar, clickAccess Policy.The Per-Request Policies screen opens.
- On the menu bar, clickAccess Policy.
- On the menu bar, clickProperties.
- Click the Rules tab.The General Properties screen opens.
- In the General Properties area, click theEdit Access Policy for Profilelink.profile_nameThe visual policy editor opens the access policy in a separate screen.
- Click the(+)icon anywhere in the access policy to add a new item.Only an applicable subset of access policy items is available for selection in the visual policy editor for any access profile type.A popup screen opens, listing predefined actions on tabs such as General Purpose, Authentication, and so on.
- This is a dummy step to enable the use of substeps.
- Click the(+)icon anywhere in your access profile to add a new action item.A popup screen opens, listing predefined actions on tabs such as General Purpose, Authentication, and so on.
- ClickAdd Item.The screen is not active while the visual policy editor creates the action. The screen closes and a Properties screen opens.
- ClickApply Access Policyto save your configuration.
- In theInactivity Timeoutfield, type the number of seconds that should pass before the access policy times out. Type0to set no timeout.If there is no activity (defined by theSession Update ThresholdandSession Update Windowsettings in the Network Access configuration) between the client and server within the specified threshold time, the system closes the current session.
- In theAccess Policy Timeoutfield, type the number of seconds that should pass before the access profile times out because of inactivity.Type0to set no timeout.
- In theMaximum Session Timeoutfield, type the maximum number of seconds the session can exist.Type0to set no timeout.
- In theMax Concurrent Usersfield, type the maximum number of users that can use this access profile at the same time.Type0to set no maximum.
- In theMax In Progress Sessions Per Client IPfield, type the maximum number of concurrent sessions that can be in progress for a client IP address.When setting this value, take into account whether users will come from a NAT-ed or proxied client address and, if so, consider increasing the value accordingly. The default value is 128.Only a user in the administrator, application editor, manager, or resource administrator role has access to this field.F5 does not recommend setting this value to0(unlimited).
- Select theRestrict to Single Client IPcheck box to restrict the current session to a single IP address.This setting associates the session ID with the IP address.Only a user in the administrator, application editor, manager, or resource administrator role has access to this field.Upon a request to the session, if the IP address has changed the request is redirected to a logout page, the session ID is deleted, and a log entry is written to indicate that a session hijacking attempt was detected. If such a redirect is not possible, the request is denied and the same events occur.
- In theMax Sessions Per Userfield, type the maximum number of concurrent sessions that one user can start.Type0to set no maximum.Only a user in the administrator, application editor, manager, or resource administrator role has access to this field.
- To configure logout URIs, in the Configurations area, type each logout URI in theURIfield, and then clickAdd.
- In theLogout URI Timeoutfield, type the delay in seconds before logout occurs for the customized logout URIs defined in theLogout URI Includelist.
- To configure SSO:
- For users to log in to multiple domains using one SSO configuration, skip the settings in the SSO Across Authentication Domains (Single Domain mode) area. You can configure SSO for multiple domains only after you finish the initial access profile configuration.
- For users to log in to a single domain using an SSO configuration, configure settings in the SSO Across Authentication Domains (Single Domain mode) area, or you can configure SSO settings after you finish the initial access profile configuration.
- ClickSSO / Auth Domainson the menu bar.The SSO Across Authentication Domains screen opens.
- For Domain Mode, selectSingle DomainorMultiple Domains.Depending on this setting, users can log in to a single domain or multiple domains with this SSO configuration.The screen refreshes to display appropriate fields.
- If you selectedMultiple Domains, then in thePrimary Authentication URIfield, type the primary URI for authentication.
- In theDomain Cookiefield, specify a domain cookie, if the application access control connection uses a cookie.
- In theCookie Optionssetting, specify whether to use a secure cookie.
- If the policy requires a secure cookie, select theSecurecheck box to add thesecurekeyword to the session cookie.
- If you are configuring an LTM access scenario that uses an HTTPS virtual server to authenticate the user and then sends the user to an existing HTTP virtual server to use applications, clear this check box.
- If the access policy requires a persistent cookie, in theCookie Optionssetting, select thePersistentcheck box.This sets cookies if the session does not have a webtop. When the session is first established, session cookies are not marked as persistent; but when the first response is sent to the client after the access policy completes successfully, the cookies are marked persistent. Persistent cookies are updated for the expiration timeout every 60 seconds. The timeout is equal to session inactivity timeout. If the session inactivity timeout is overwritten in the access policy, the overwritten value will be used to set the persistent cookie expiration.
- From theSSO Configurationslist, select an SSO configuration.
- In the Configurations area from theExchangelist, select an Exchange profile.Exchange profiles specify any SSO configurations for Microsoft Exchange services, such as Autodiscover, Outlook Anywhere, and so on. The configuration in the Exchange profile is used for Microsoft Exchange clients regardless of any SSO configuration you select from theSSO Configurationlist in this access profile.
- In the Configurations area from theExchangelist, select an Exchange profile that specifies an NTLM Auth configuration.The configuration in the Exchange profile is used for Microsoft Exchange clients regardless of any SSO configuration you select from theSSO Configurationlist in this access profile.
- In the Language Settings area, add and remove accepted languages, and set the default language.A browser uses the highest priority accepted language. If no browser language matches the accepted languages list, the browser uses the default language.
The access profile displays in the Access Profiles
List. Default-log-setting is assigned to the access profile.
To apply this access policy to network
traffic, add the access profile to a virtual server.
To ensure that logging is configured to meet your
requirements, verify the log settings for the access profile.