Configure an Administrative Account for a WildFire Cluster

1. Log in to the Panorama Web Interface.
2. Configure a Cluster Centrally on Panorama.
3. (Optional) Configure an authentication profile to define the authentication service that validates the login credentials of the administrators who access the WildFire appliance CLI.
4. Configure one or more administrator accounts as needed.

   The administrator accounts created on Panorama are later imported to the WildFire appliances in the WildFire Cluster and managed from Panorama.

   You must configure the administrative account with Superuser admin role privileges to successfully configure authentication for Wildfire appliances in the WildFire cluster.
5. Configure the authentication for the WildFire appliances in the WildFire cluster.

   1. Select PanoramaManaged WildFire Clusters and select the WildFire cluster you previously configured.
   2. (Optional) Select the Authentication Profile you configured in the previous step.
   3. Configure the authentication Timeout Configuration for the WildFire appliances.

      1. Enter the number of Failed Attempts before a user is locked out of the WildFire appliance CLI.
      2. Enter the Lockout Time, in minutes, for which a WildFire appliance 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 a WildFire appliance.
      5. Enter the Max Session Time the administrator can be logged in before being automatically logged out.
   4. Add the WildFire appliance 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 WildFire appliances in the WildFire cluster. These administrators are specific to the WildFire appliances in the WildFire cluster 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 WildFire appliances in the WildFire cluster.
   5. Click OK to save the WildFire cluster authentication configuration.

6. Commit and then Commit and Push your configuration changes.
7. Access the WildFire appliance CLI to verify you can successfully access a WildFire appliance using the local admin user.