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GlobalProtect Portals Agent External Tab

  • Network
    GlobalProtect
    Portals
    <portal-config>
    Agent
    <agent-config>
    External
Select the
External
tab to configure the external gateway settings for an agent configuration.
GlobalProtect Portal External Settings
Description
Cutoff Time (sec)
Specify the number of seconds that an app waits for all of the available gateways to respond before it selects the best gateway. For subsequent connection requests, the app tries to connect to only those gateways that responded before the cutoff. A value of 0 means the app uses the
TCP Connection Timeout
in
AppConfigurations
in the
App
tab (range is 0 to 10; default is 5).
External Gateways
Specify the list of firewalls to which apps can try to connect when establishing a tunnel while not on the corporate network.
Add
external gateways that include the following information for each:
  • Name
    —A label of up to 31 characters to identify the gateway. The name is case-sensitive and must be unique. Use only letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, and underscores.
  • Address
    —The IP address or FQDN of the firewall interface where the gateway is configured. The value must match the CN (and SAN if specified) in the gateway server certificate. For example, if you used a FQDN to generate the certificate, you must also enter the FQDN here.
  • Source Region
    —Source region for endpoints. When users connect, GlobalProtect recognizes the endpoint region and only allows users to connect to gateways that are configured for that region. For gateway choices, source region is considered first, then gateway priority.
  • Priority
    —Select a value (
    Highest
    ,
    High
    ,
    Medium
    ,
    Low
    ,
    Lowest
    , or
    Manual only
    ) to help the app determine which gateway to use.
    Manual only
    prevents the GlobalProtect app from attempting to connect to this gateway when
    Auto Discovery
    is enabled on the endpoint. The app will first contact all specified gateways with a
    Highest
    ,
    High
    , or
    Medium
    priority and establish a tunnel with the gateway that provides the fastest response. If the higher priority gateways are unreachable, the app next contacts any additional gateways with lower priority values (excludes
    Manual only
    gateways).
  • Manual
    —Select this option to let users manually select (or switch to) a gateway. The GlobalProtect app can connect to any external gateway that is configured as
    Manual
    . When the app pconnects to another gateway, the existing tunnel is disconnected and a new tunnel established. The manual gateways can also have a different authentication mechanism than the primary gateway. If an endpoint is restarted or if a rediscovery is performed, the GlobalProtect app connects to the primary gateway. This feature is useful if a group of users needs to connect temporarily to a specific gateway to access a secure segment of your network.
Third Party VPN
Third Party VPN
To direct the GlobalProtect app to ignore selected, third-party VPN clients so that GlobalProtect does not conflict with them,
Add
the name of the VPN client: Select the name from the list, or enter the name in the field provided. GlobalProtect ignores the route settings for the specified VPN clients if you configure this feature.

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