Defining Connectivity Options

Retain the default (selected) or clear the

Save Servers Upon Exit

check box to specify Edge Client to maintain a list of recently used user-entered APM servers.

To enable the client to try to use the Windows logon session for an APM session also, select the

Reuse Windows Logon Session

check box.

To enable the client to try to use the credentials that they typed for Windows logon in an APM session also, select the

Reuse Windows Logon Credentials

check box.

To enable the client to launch an administrator-defined script on session termination, select the

Run session log off script

check box.

To enable the client to display a warning before launching the pre-defined script on session termination, select

Show warning to user before launching script

check box.

To support automatic reconnection without the need to provide credentials again, select the

Allow Password Caching

check box.

To cache the user's password securely on the

disk

or in the

memory

, select the location to save from the

Save Password Method

list. If you select

memory

, the

Password Cache Expiration (minutes)

field displays with a default value of 240. You can either retain the default value or type the number of minutes to save the password in memory.

To enable automatic download and update of client packages, from the

Component Update

list, select

yes

(default).

Click

OAuth Settings

in the left pane to specify optional OAuth settings that Edge Client will use for authenticating Native Apps using OpenID Connect specification. When OAuth is configured, the end-users are required to authenticate via the OAuth authentication flow. This OIDC support provides consistent authentication experience by enabling two-factor verification and Single Sign-On across Browser and Edge Client. Refer section

Configuring policies for OAuth client and resource server

in the

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: OAuth Concepts and Configuration

for details on adding an OAuth Resource Server to the access policy.

Select the OAuth provider in the

Provider

list. If you select

None

, OAuth configuration is disabled.

Specify the OAuth Client ID identifier in the

Client ID

field. OAuth configuration is disabled if the client ID is not specified.

Specify the scopes that will be requested by the client in the

Scopes

field. The value of the scope parameter is expressed as a list of space-delimited, case-sensitive strings defined by the authorization server. When using multiple strings, the order does not matter. All printable ASCII characters are allowed excluding quote (") and backslash (\).

In the

Complete Redirection URI

field, enter the optional URI for OAuth client to be directed to when authentication completes or fails. The default APM page is used if this URI is not specified.

Click

Server List

in the left pane to specify the list of APM servers to provide when the client connects. The servers you add here display as connection options in the BIG-IP Edge Client.

Click

Location DNS List

in the left pane to specify DNS suffixes that are in the local network. Providing a list of DNS suffixes for the download package enables Edge Client to support the auto-connect option. With

Auto-Connect

selected, Edge Client uses the DNS suffixes to automatically connect when a client is not on the local network (not on the list) and automatically disconnect when the client is on the local network.