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Untangle Network Security

By : Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab
Book Image

Untangle Network Security

By: Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Untangle Network Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Directory Connector


The main functionality of Untangle's Directory Connector is to allow Untangle NGFW to communicate with Active Directory and Radius servers. Untangle's Directory Connector can be used with Captive Portal to authenticate users or to provide user details (such as the username and the security group) to other Untangle applications such as Policy Manager, Reports, and Rules (that is, username matcher).

Note

Captive Portal must be installed on Untangle NGFW after Directory Connector to work properly. If you have installed Captive Portal first, just uninstall and reinstall it.

The User Notification API

Untangle NGFW deals with clients based on their IP addresses. Thus, the discovered username will need to be mapped to the machine's IP address and stored in the host table so that other applications can use the information about this host.

The User Notification API is a web app that runs on Untangle NGFW. It is used to notify Untangle NGFW that a specific user is logged in to a specific...