Manual Chapter :
Implementing APM System Authentication
Applies To:
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BIG-IP APM
- 17.0.0
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- 17.0.0
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- 17.0.0
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- 17.0.0
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- 17.0.0
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- 17.0.0
Implementing APM System Authentication
Overview: Configuring authentication for a remote system based on APM
As an administrator in a large computing environment, you might prefer to
store user accounts remotely, on a dedicated authentication server. When you want to use a remote
server to authenticate traffic that manages a BIG-IP
system, you can store BIG-IP system administrative accounts on an AAA server. BIG-IP APM® supports AAA servers such as HTTP, LDAP, RADIUS,
Active Directory, and TACACS+. To complete the authentication process, you must add the newly
configured AAA action to an access policy. You can find more information about AAA authentication
and access policies in
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: Single Sign-On
Concepts and Configuration
and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager:
Visual Policy Editor
.System authentication using APM methods will not work if the user name and
password contains Unicode characters (for example, Chinese characters) or the symbols ampersand
(
&
), colon (:
), less than
(<
), and apostrophe ('
).Creating a user authentication based on APM
Before you begin:
- Verify that the BIG-IP system user accounts have been created on the remote authentication server.
- Verify that the appropriate user groups, if any, are defined on the remote authentication server.
You can configure the BIG-IP system to use an
APM server for authenticating BIG-IP
system user accounts, that is, traffic that passes through the management interface
(MGMT).
- On the Main tab, click .
- On the menu bar, clickAuthentication.
- ClickChange.
- From theUser Directorylist, selectRemote - APM Based.
- For theAccess Profilesetting, click the+button.The screen refreshes to show general properties.
- In theNamefield, type a unique name for the access profile.
- From theDefault Languagelist, select a language.The default isEnglish (en).
- From theAuthentication Typelist, select the type of authentication for the APM based remote user authentication.The screen refreshes to show areas and settings specific to the authentication type.
- Fill in the fields.
- ClickFinished.
You can now authenticate administrative traffic for user accounts that are stored on
a remote APM server. If you have no need to configure group-based user
authorization, your configuration tasks are complete.
Example access policy using APM LDAP authentication
This is an example of an access policy with all the associated elements that are needed to authenticate and authorize your users with LDAP authentication.
Example of an access policy for LDAP Auth
