: Configure an Administrative Account for a Dedicated Log Collector
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Configure an Administrative Account for a Dedicated Log Collector

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Configure an Administrative Account for a Dedicated Log Collector

Create and configure admin user with granular authentication parameters for the Dedicated Log Collector.
Create one or more administrators with granular authentication parameters for your Dedicated Log Collector to manage from the Panorama™ management server. Additionally, you can configure local administrators from Panorama that can be configured directly on the CLI of the Dedicated Log Collector. However, pushing new configuration changes to a Dedicated Log Collector overwrites existing local administrators with the administrators configured for the Dedicated Log Collector.
  1. (
    Optional
    ) Configure an authentication profile to define the authentication service that validates the login credentials of the administrators who access the Dedicated Log Collector CLI.
  2. The administrator accounts created on Panorama are later imported to the Dedicated Log Collector and managed from Panorama.
    Only Superuser administrators are supported when configuring an administrative account for a Dedicated Log Collector. Local or Panorama Administrators with any other admin role type is not supported.
  3. Configure the authentication for the Dedicated Log Collector.
    1. Select
      Panorama
      Managed Collectors
      and select the Dedicated Log Collector you previously added.
    2. (
      Optional
      ) Select the
      Authentication Profile
      you configured in the previous step.
    3. Configure the authentication
      Timeout Configuration
      for the Dedicated Log Collector.
      1. Enter the number of
        Failed Attempt
        s before a user is locked out of the Dedicated Log Collector CLI.
      2. Enter the
        Lockout Time
        , in minutes, for which the Dedicated Log Collector locks out a user account after that user reaches the configured number of
        Failed Attempts
        .
      3. Enter the
        Idle Timeout
        , in minutes, before the user account is automatically logged out due to inactivity.
      4. Enter the
        Max Session Count
        to set how many user accounts can simultaneously access the Dedicated Log Collector.
      5. Enter the
        Max Session Time
        the administrator can be logged in before being automatically logged out.
    4. Add the Dedicated Log Collector administrators.
      Administrators may either be added as a local administrator or as an imported Panorama administrator—but not both. Adding the same administrator as both a local administrator and as an imported Panorama administrator is not supported and causes the Panorama commit to fail. For example, the commit to Panorama fails if you add
      admin1
      as both a local and Panorama administrator.
      1. Add
        and configure new administrators unique to the Dedicated Log Collector. These administrators are specific to the Dedicated Log Collector for which they are created and you manage these administrators from this table.
      2. Add
        any administrators configured on Panorama. These administrators are created on Panorama and imported to the Dedicated Log Collector.
    5. Click
      OK
      to save the Dedicated Log Collector authentication configuration.
  4. Commit
    and then
    Commit and Push
    your configuration changes.
  5. Log in to the Panorama CLI of the Dedicated Log Collector to verify you can successfully access the Dedicated Log Collector using the local admin user.

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