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Okta Administration: Up and Running

By : Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf, HenkJan de Vries
Book Image

Okta Administration: Up and Running

By: Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf, HenkJan de Vries

Overview of this book

IAM, short for identity and access management, is a set of policies and technologies for ensuring the security of an organization through careful role and access assignment for users and devices. With this book, you’ll get up and running with Okta, an identity and access management (IAM) service that you can use for both employees and customers. Once you’ve understood how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, you’ll learn about the Universal Directory, which covers how to integrate other directories and applications and set up groups and policies. As you make progress, the book explores Okta’s single sign-on (SSO) feature and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. Finally, you will delve into API access management and discover how you can leverage Advanced Server Access for your cloud servers and Okta Access Gateway for your on-premises applications. By the end of this Okta book, you’ll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use this book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
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Section 2: Extending Okta

Setting up ASA

There are a few different steps needed to start using ASA:

  1. Install ASA in Okta.
  2. Enroll servers and install the agent.
  3. Connect your team's servers.
  4. Configure your servers.

Let's go through them in order, starting with installing ASA.

Installing ASA

ASA is its own product, and to be able to use it in your organization, you need to purchase it separately.

To start using ASA, you need to install the product in your Okta tenant. The product is available as an application, so you will start as you would when adding any application:

  1. Go to Applications | Applications.
  2. Click the button for Add Application.
  3. Search for Okta Advanced Server Access, click on it, and then click Add.

In the following general setup, you get to fill in an Application Label and Application Visibility:

Figure 8.1 – General settings of the Okta ASA application

By clicking Done, you finalize the installation...