ISE

The video introduces you to the concept of device profiling and MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) on Cisco ISE. We will start by going through different type of probing, how devices get profiled with Profiling policies, and how to create an Endpoint Identity Group for the profiled devices to be used in authorization policies. Static MAC address and Identity Group will be configured for devices that cannot be profiled. Cisco IP Phone and Access Point will be used in our demonstration.

The video presents you with Cisco recommended switch and Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) configuration to interoperate with Cisco ISE. Most configurations are for enabling 802.1X and RADIUS, while the remaining (eg. SNMP, DHCP etc) are for providing additional information as part of ISE device profiling. Here we use a Cisco 3750 and vWLC in our demonstration, and we will also add them to Network Device. The video closes by going through the switch configuration validator.

The video demonstrate steps to integrate Cisco ISE with Windows Active Directory to access user information for authentication and authorization. This is very similar to joining a computer to a domain, where ISE will become a domain computer. Once joined, ISE will have access to user attributes particularly information on group membership that is usually heavily used to determine user access privilege. Identity Source Sequence, on the other hand, is a list of Identity Sources in order of preference, which we also look at in this video.

The video serves as an introduction to Cisco ISE web and CLI interface. Some general configurations will be performed without getting into detail of policy configuration. By the end of the video, you should be fairly familiar and are able navigate around ISE web interface.

• ISE Command Line Interface
• ISE GUI Walkthrough
• ISE Basic Configuration
• Client Provisioning Auto-Update

The video demonstrates how to register a Policy Service node to a primary Admin node using CA-signed certificate. The same process applies to registering a secondary Admin node. This step is required when implementing an ISE distributed design for high scalability. This method is preferable over self-signed certificate.