Userid technical documentation userid documentation. This video is from the palo alto network learning center course, firewall 9. Assign a name to the agent to easily identify it, set its ip and the port we configured in the agent service tab of the agents configuration. Configure the windowsbased userid agent for user mapping.
Palo alto networks userid technology addresses the lack of visibility into user. Install the windowsbased userid agent palo alto networks. Download and install the latest version of useragent from configure the useragent server to run under a different account than the local system, which is selected by default. Once the install is done, the latest agent should start running with all the configs retrieved from the previous agent. When splunk receives authentication logs from an external system like a radius server, forward the authentication logs from splunk to a userid agent or. These settings define the methods that the userid agent uses to perform user.
Configuration customer support portal csp panos vm series security policies high availability userid panorama global protect ssl decryption ipsec dual isps. Palo alto networks userid agent configuration chases. Discover the numerous benefits of userid for your network environment. On the network zone page, edit the appropriate zones. Userid agent setup tips palo alto networks live free download as pdf file. Userid agent setup tips palo alto networks live login user. To connect to the installed userid agent, we need to skip to the next tab and add a new userid agent. The palo alto userid service provides a mapping between.
Palo alto userid agent installation cyber security memo. It can be found on the support portal under software. Scroll to the user identification agent section of the screen and. Review where you can install the user id agent, which servers it can monitor, and where you can install the userid credential service. The following table shows the operating systems on which you can install each release of the windowsbased userid agent. These settings define the methods that the userid agent uses to perform user mapping. Find out on which operating systems you can install the windowsbased userid agent. Xenapp or microsoft terminal services, the userid terminal services agent. The palo alto networks firewall can detect the active directory names of users on a network and match those names against security policies. Userid with splunk palo alto networks app for splunk v5. Log into the palo alto networks firewall and go to device user identification. Navigate to program files paloalto networks userid agent. Depending on the time of day and the chattiness of the eventlog on your server, it could take a while before the list is populated with a reliable database of active ip addresses take. Uainstallxmsi file on the systems where you plan to install the agent.
When the userid agent is first started it will go through the last 50. Visibility into the application activity at a user level, not just an ip address level, allows you to more effectively enable the applications traversing the network. How to install the palo alto networks userid agent knowledge base. Palo alto userid agent configure steps info security memo. Userid, a standard feature on palo alto networks nextgeneration firewalls, enables you to leverage user information stored in a wide range of repositories. A userid agent will check the active directory domain controllers for event log entries that are generated that contain user names and their client ip.
Select a pc in the domain to install the useragent software. If you are using the userid agent for credential detection, make sure you download the. The palo alto networks userid agent is a windows service that connects to servers on your networkfor example, active directory servers. You install the userid agent on a domain server that is running a supported operating system os and then connect the. Visibility into the application activity at a user level, not just an ip address level, allows you to more effectively enable the. Before you can get started, download the user identification agent. Configure name, host ip address and port of the userid agent. Download the version of the userid agent you want to install. Log in to the palo alto networks customer support web site. Enable user identification on each zone to be monitored.