Enable Group Mapping

Enable Group Mapping

1. Create an LDAP Server Profile that specifies how to connect to the directory servers to which the firewall should connect to obtain group mapping information.

   1. Select DeviceServer ProfilesLDAP and click Add.
   2. Enter a Profile Name to identify the server profile.
   3. If this profile is for a firewall with multiple virtual systems capability, select a virtual system or Shared as the Location where the profile is available.
   4. For each LDAP server (up to four), Add and enter a Name (to identify the server), server IP address (LDAP Server field), and server Port (default 389).
   5. Select the server Type from the drop-down: active-directory, e-directory, sun, or other.
   6. If you want the device to use SSL or TLS for a more secure connection with the directory server, select the Require SSL/TLS secured connection check box (it is selected by default). The protocol that the device uses depends on the server Port:

      • 389 (default)—TLS (Specifically, the device uses the StartTLS operation, which upgrades the initial plaintext connection to TLS.)
      • 636—SSL
      • Any other port—The device first attempts to use TLS. If the directory server doesn’t support TLS, the device falls back to SSL.
   7. For additional security, you can select the Verify Server Certificate for SSL sessions check box (it is cleared by default) so that the device verifies the certificate that the directory server presents for SSL/TLS connections. To enable verification, you also have to select the Require SSL/TLS secured connection check box. For verification to succeed, the certificate must meet one of the following conditions:

      • It is in the list of device certificates: DeviceCertificate ManagementCertificatesDevice Certificates. Import the certificate into the device, if necessary.
      • The certificate signer is in the list of trusted certificate authorities: DeviceCertificate ManagementCertificatesDefault Trusted Certificate Authorities.
   8. Click OK.
2. Add the LDAP server profile to the User-ID Group Mapping configuration.

   1. Select DeviceUser IdentificationGroup Mapping Settings and then Add a new group mapping configuration.
   2. Select Server Profile.
   3. Enter a Name for the group mapping configuration.
   4. Select the Server Profile you just created.
   5. Specify the Update Interval (in seconds) after which the firewall initiates a connection with the LDAP directory server to obtain any updates that are made to the groups that the firewall policies use (range of 60 to 86,400 seconds).
   6. Make sure the server profile is Enabled for group mapping.
3. (Optional) Enable GlobalProtect to retrieve serial numbers from the directory server.

   GlobalProtect can identify the status of connecting endpoints and enforce HIP-based security policies based on the presence of the endpoint serial number. If an endpoint is managed, you can bind the serial number of the endpoint to the machine account of the endpoint in your directory server. The firewall can then pre-fetch the serial numbers for these managed endpoints when it retrieves group mapping information from the directory server.

   1. From your group mapping configuration, select Server Profile.
   2. Enable the option to Fetch list of managed devices.
4. (Optional) Specify attributes to identify users and user groups.

   1. From your group mapping configuration, select User and Group Attributes.
   2. In the User Attributes area, specify the Primary Username, E-Mail, and Alternate Username 1-3 used to identify individual users.
   3. In the Group Attributes area, specify the Group Name, Group Member, and E-Mail used to identify user groups.
5. (Optional) Limit which groups can be selected in policy rules.

   By default, if you don’t specify groups, all groups are available in policy rules.

   1. Add existing groups from the directory service:

      1. From your group mapping configuration, select Group Include List.
      2. In the Available Groups list, select the groups you want to appear in policy rules, and then click the Add (

         

         ) icon to move the group to the Included Groups list.
   2. If you want to base policy rules on user attributes that don’t match existing user groups, create custom groups based on LDAP filters:

      1. From your group mapping configuration, select Custom Group.
      2. Add a new custom group.
      3. Enter a group Name that is unique in the group mapping configuration for the current firewall or virtual system. If the Name has the same value as the Distinguished Name (DN) of an existing AD group domain, the firewall uses the custom group in all references to that name (for example, in policies and logs).
      4. Specify an LDAP Filter of up to 2,048 UTF-8 characters, then click OK. The firewall doesn’t validate LDAP filters.
         To optimize LDAP searches and minimize the performance impact on the LDAP directory server, use indexed attributes and reduce the search scope to include the user and group objects that you require for policy or visibility. Alternatively, you can create custom groups based on LDAP filters.
6. Commit your changes.

   Click OK and Commit.