Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Personal Devices on a Corporate Network (BYOD)
When supporting personal devices on a corporate network, you must protect network services and enterprise data by authenticating and authorizing users (employees, contractors, and guests) and their devices. Cisco ISE provides the tools you need to allow employees to securely use personal devices on a corporate network.
Guests can automatically register their devices when logging in to Guest portals. Guests can register additional devices up to the maximum limit that you define in their guest type. These devices are registered into endpoint identity groups based on the portal configuration.
Guests can add their personal devices to the network by running the native supplicant provisioning (Network Setup Assistant), or by adding their devices to the My Devices portal. You can create native supplicant profiles, which determine the proper native supplicant provisioning wizard to use, based on the operating system.
Because native supplicant profiles are not available for all devices, users can use the My Devices portal to add these devices manually; or you can configure BYOD rules to register these devices.
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How To: ISE and BYOD - Onboarding, Registering, and Provisioning How To: ISE and BYOD - Using Certificates for Differentiated Access |
End-User Device Portals in a Distributed Environment
Cisco ISE end-user web portals depend on the Administration, Policy Services, and Monitoring personas to provide configuration, session support, and reporting.
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Administration Node—Configuration changes that you make to users, devices, and end-user portals are written to the Administration node.
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Policy Services Node—The end-user portals run on a Policy Services Node, which handles all session traffic, including: network access, client provisioning, guest services, posture, and profiling. If a Policy Service Node is part of a node group, and one node fails, the other nodes detect the failure and reset any pending sessions.
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Monitoring Node—The Monitoring node collects, aggregates, and reports data about the end-user and device activity on the My Devices, Sponsor, and Guest portals. If the primary Monitoring node fails, the secondary Monitoring node automatically becomes the primary Monitoring node.
Global Settings for Device Portals
You can configure the following general settings for the BYOD and My Devices portals:
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Employee Registered Devices—Enter the maximum number of devices that an employee can register in Restrict employees to. By default, this value is set to 5 devices.
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Retry URL—Enter a URL that can be used to redirect the device back to Cisco ISE in Retry URL for onboarding.
Once you configure these general settings, they apply to all BYOD and My Devices portals that you set up for your company.
Personal Device Portals
Cisco ISE provides several web-based portals to support employee-owned personal devices. These Device portals do not participate in the guest or sponsor portal flows.
Use these portals to:
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Blacklist Portal—Provide information about personal devices that are “blacklisted” and cannot be used to gain access to the network.
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BYOD Portals—Enable employees to register their personal devices using native supplicant provisioning functionality.
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Certificate Provisioning Portal—Enables administrators and employees to request for user/device certificate(s) for devices that cannot go through the BYOD flow.
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Client Provisioning Portals—Force employees to download a posture agent on their devices that checks for compliance.
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MDM Portals—Enable employees to enroll their mobile devices with an external Mobile Device Management (MDM) system.
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My Devices Portals—Enable employees to add and register personal devices, including those that do not support native supplicant provisioning, and then manage them.
Cisco ISE provides you with the ability to host multiple device portals on the Cisco ISE server, including a predefined set of default portals. The default portal themes have standard Cisco branding that you can customize through the Admin portal. You can also choose to further customize a portal by uploading images, logos, and cascading style sheets (CSS) files that are specific to your organization.
Access Device Portals
Procedure
| Step 1 |
To access any of the Device portals, you can either:
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| Step 2 |
Select the specific device portal that you want to configure. |
Blacklist Portal
Employees do not access this portal directly, but are redirected to it.
If employees lose their personal device or it is stolen, they can update its status in the My Devices portal, which adds it to the Blacklist endpoint identity group. This prevents others from using the device to obtain unauthorized network access. If anyone attempts to connect to the network using one of these devices, they are redirected to the Blacklist portal which informs them that the device is denied access to the network. If the device is found, employees can reinstate it (in the My Devices portal) and regain network access without having to register the device again. Depending on whether the device was lost or stolen, additional provisioning may be required before the device can be connected to the network.
You can configure the port settings (default is port 8444) for the Blacklist portal. If you change the port number, make sure it is not being used by another end-user portal.
For information about configuring a Blacklist portal, see Edit the Blacklist Portal.
Certificate Provisioning Portal
Employees can access the Certificate Provisioning portal directly.
The Certificate Provisioning portal allows employees to request certificates for devices that cannot go through the onboarding flow. For example, devices such as point-of-sale terminals cannot go through the BYOD flow and need to be issued certificates manually. The Certificate Provisioning portal allows a privileged set of users to upload a certificate request for such devices, generate key pairs (if required), and download the certificate.
Employees can access this portal and request for a single certificate or make a bulk certificate request using a CSV file.
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For information about the functionality and configuration of Identity Services Engine Certificate Provisioning Portal, see ISE 2.0: Certificate Provisioning Portal. |
Bring Your Own Device Portal
Employees do not access this portal directly.
Employees are redirected to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) portal when registering personal devices using native supplicants. The first time employees attempt to access the network using a personal device, they may be prompted to manually download and launch the Network Setup Assistant (NSA) wizard and be guided through registering and installing the native supplicant. After they have registered a device, they can use the My Devices portal to manage it.
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BYOD flow is not supported when a device is connected to a network using AnyConnect Network Access Manager (NAM). |
Client Provisioning Portal
Employees do not access this portal directly, but are redirected to it.
The Client Provisioning system provides posture assessments and remediations for devices that are attempting to gain access to your corporate network. When employees request network access using their devices, you can route them to a Client Provisioning portal and require them to first download the posture agent. The posture agent scans the device for compliance, such as verifying that virus protection software is installed on it and that its operating system is supported.
Mobile Device Management Portal
Employees do not access this portal directly, but are redirected to it.
Many companies use a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system to manage employees’ mobile devices.
Cisco ISE allows integration with external MDM systems that employees can use to enroll their mobile device and gain access to your corporate network. Cisco provides an external MDM interface that employees can enroll in to register their devices and then connect to the network.
The MDM portal enables employees to enroll in an external MDM system.
Employees can then use the My Devices portal to manage their mobile devices, such as lock their devices with a pin code, reset their device to its default factory settings, or remove applications and settings that were installed when registering the device.
Cisco ISE allows you to have a single MDM portal for all external MDM systems, or a portal for each individual MDM system.
For information about configuring MDM servers to work with ISE, see Create an MDM Portal.
My Devices Portal
Employees can access the My Devices portal directly.
Some network devices that need network access are not supported by native supplicant provisioning and cannot be registered using the BYOD portal. However, employees can add and register personal devices, whose operating systems are not supported or do not have web browsers (such as printers, Internet radios, and other devices), using the My Devices portal.
Employees can add and manage new devices by entering the MAC address for the device. When employees add devices using the My Devices portal, Cisco ISE adds the devices to the Endpoints page as members of the RegisteredDevices endpoint identity group (unless already statically assigned to a different endpoint identity group). The devices are profiled like any other endpoint in Cisco ISE and go through a registration process for network access.
When two MAC addresses from one device are entered into the My Devices Portal by a user, profiling determines that they have the same hostname, and they are merged together as a single entry in ISE. For example, a user registers a laptop with wired and wireless addresses. Any operations on that device, such as delete, acts on both addresses.
When a registered device is deleted from the portal, the Device Registration Status and BYOD Registration Status attributes change to NotRegistered and No, respectively. However, these attributes remain unchanged when a guest (who is not an employee) registers a device using the Guest Device Registration page in the credentialed Guest portals, because these are BYOD attributes used only during employee device registration.
Regardless of whether employees register their devices using the BYOD or the My Devices portals, they can use the My Devices portal to manage them.
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The My Devices portal is not available when the Administrator's portal is down. |
BYOD Deployment Options and Status Flow
The BYOD deployment flows that support personal devices vary slightly based on these factors:
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Single or dual SSID—With single SSID, the same WLAN is used for certificate enrollment, provisioning, and network access. In a dual SSID deployment, there are two SSIDs: one provides enrollment and provisioning, and the other provides secure network access.
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Windows, MacOS, iOS, or Android device—The native supplicant flow starts similarly, regardless of the device type, by redirecting employees using a supported personal device to the BYOD portal to confirm their device information. The process diverges based on device type.
Employee Connects to Network
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Employee Credentials Are Authenticated—Cisco ISE authenticates the employee against the corporate Active Directory or other corporate identity stores and provides an authorization policy.
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Device Is Redirected to the BYOD Portal—The device is redirected to the BYOD portal. The device’s MAC address field is automatically preconfigured, and the user can add a device name and description.
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Native Supplicant Is Configured (MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android)—The native supplicant is configured; but the process varies by device:
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MacOS and Windows devices—Employee clicks Register in the BYOD portal to download and install the supplicant provisioning wizard (Network Setup Assistant), which configures the supplicant and provides the certificate (if necessary) used for EAP-TLS certificate-based authentication. The issued certificate is embedded with the device's MAC address and employee's username.
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Network Setup Assistant cannot be downloaded to a Windows device, unless the the user of that device has administrative priveleges. If you cannot grant end users administrative priveleges, then use your GPO to push the certificate to the user's device, instead of using the BYOD flow.
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Starting with version OSx 10.15, the user must allow download of he Supplicant Provisioning Wizard (SPW). A window displays on the user's device asking them to allow or deny downloads from the Cisco ISE server.
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iOS devices—The Cisco ISE policy server sends a new profile using Apple’s iOS over the air to the IOS device, which includes:
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The issued certificate (if configured) is embedded with the IOS device's MAC address and employee's username.
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A Wi-Fi supplicant profile that enforces the use of EAP-TLS for 802.1X authentication.
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Android devices—Cisco ISE prompts and routes employee to download the Cisco Network Setup Assistant (NSA) from the Google Play store. After installing the app, the employee can open NSA and start the setup wizard, which generates the supplicant configuration and issued certificate used to configure the device.
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Change of Authorization Issued—After the user goes through the on boarding flow, Cisco ISE initiates a Change of Authorization (CoA). This causes the MacOS X, Windows, and Android devices to reconnect to the secure 802.1X network. For single SSID, iOS devices also connect automatically, but for dual SSID, the wizard prompts iOS users to manually connect to the new network.
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You can configure a BYOD flow that does not use supplicants. See the Cisco ISE Community document https://supportforums.cisco.com/blog/12705471/ise-byod-registration-only-without-native-supplicant-or-certificate-provisioning. |
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Check the Enable if Target Network is Hidden check box only when the actual Wi-Fi network is hidden. Otherwise, Wi-Fi network configuration may not be provisioned properly for certain iOS devices, especially in the single SSID flow (where the same Wi-Fi network/SSID is used for both onboarding and connectivity). |
BYOD Session Endpoint Attribute
The state of the endpoint attribute BYODRegistration changes during the BYOD flow to the following states.
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Unknown—The device has not been through a BYOD flow.
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Yes—The device has been through BYOD flow, and is registered.
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No—The device has been through BYOD flow, but is not registered. This means that the device was deleted.
Device Registration Status Endpoint Attribute
The state of the endpoint attribute DeviceRegistrationStatus changes during device registration to the following states.
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Registered—The device has been through BYOD flow, and it is registered. There is a 20-minute delay before the attribute changes from pending to registered.
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Pending—The device has been through BYOD flow, and it is registered. But, ISE has not seen it on the network.
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Not Registered—The device has not been through BYOD flow. This is the default state of this attribute.
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Stolen— The user logs onto the MyDevices portal, and marks a currently onboarded device as Stolen. When this happens:
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If the device was onboarded by provisioning a certificate and a profile, ISE revokes the certificate that was provisioned to the device, and assigns the device’s mac address to the Blacklist identity group. That device no longer has network access.
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If the device was onboarded by provisioning a profile (no certificate), ISE assigns the device to the Blacklist endpoint identity group. The device will still have network access, unless you create an authorization policy for this situation. For example, IF Endpoint Identity Group is Blacklist AND BYOD_is_Registered THEN DenyAccess.
An Administrator performs an action that disables network access for several devices, such as deleting or revoking a certificate.
If a user reinstates a stolen device, the status reverts to not registered. The user must delete that device, and add that it back. That starts the onboarding process.
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Lost—The user logs on to the MyDevices portal, and marks a currently onboarded device as Lost. That causes the following actions:
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That device is assigned to Blacklist identity group.
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Certificates provisioned to the device are not revoked.
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The device status is updated to Lost.
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“BYODRegistration” is updated to No.
A lost device still has network access unless you create an authorization policy to block lost devices. You can use the Blacklist identity group or the endpoint:BYODRegistration attribute in your rule. For example, IF Endpoint Identity Group is Blacklist AND EndPoints:BYODRegistrations Equals No THEN BYOD. For more granular access, you can also add NetworkAccess:EAPAuthenticationMethod Equals PEAP or EAP-TLS or EAP-FAST” , InternalUser:IdentityGroup Equals <<group>> to the IF part of the rule.
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Limit the Number of Personal Devices Registered by Employees
You can allow employees to register between 1 and 999 personal devices. Regardless of the portal that employees used to register their personal devices, this setting defines the maximum number of devices registered across all portals.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
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Enter the maximum number of devices that an employee can register in Restrict employees to. By default, this value is set to 5 devices. |
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Click Save. If you do not want to save any updates you made to the settings, click Reset to revert to the last saved values. |
Support Device Registration Using Native Supplicants
You can create native supplicant profiles to support personal devices on the Cisco ISE network. Based on the profile that you associate with a user’s authorization requirements, Cisco ISE provides the necessary supplicant provisioning wizard to set up the user’s personal device to access the network.
The first time employees attempt to access the network using a personal device, they are guided automatically through registration and supplicant configuration. After they have registered the device, they can use the My Devices portal to manage their devices.
Operating Systems Supported by Native Supplicants
Native supplicants are supported for these operating systems:
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Android (excluding Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook)
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Mac OS X (for Apple Mac computers)
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Apple iOS devices (Apple iPod, iPhone, and iPad)
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Microsoft Windows 7, 8 (excluding RT), Vista, and 10
Allow Employees to Register Personal Devices Using Credentialed Guest Portals
Employees using credentialed Guest portals can register their personal devices. The self-provisioning flow supplied by the BYOD portal enables employees to connect devices to the network directly using native supplicants, which are available for Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android devices.
Before you begin
You must create the native supplicant profiles.
Procedure
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Choose . |
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Choose the credentialed Guest portal that you want to allow employees to use to register their devices using native supplicants and click Edit. |
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On the Portal Behavior and Flow Settings tab and in BYOD Settings, check Allow employees to use personal devices on the network. |
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Click Save and then Close. |
Provide a URL to Reconnect with BYOD Registration
You can provide information that enables employees, who encounter a problem while registering their personal devices using the BYOD portal to reconnect with the registration process.
Procedure
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Choose . |
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Change the IP address or enter a URL that can be used to redirect the device back to Cisco ISE in Retry URL for onboarding. When the employee’s device encounters a problem during the registration process, it tries to reconnect to the Internet automatically.
At this point, the IP address or domain name that you enter here redirects the device to Cisco ISE, which reinitiates the
onboarding process. The default value is 1.1.1.1.
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| Step 3 |
Click Save. If you do not want to save any updates you made to the settings, click Reset to revert to the last saved values. |
Device Portals Configuration Tasks
You can use a default portal and its default settings such as certificates, endpoint identity group, identity source sequence, portal themes, images, and other details provided by Cisco ISE. If you do not want to use the default settings, you should create a new portal or edit an existing one to meet your needs. You can duplicate a portal if you want to create multiple portals with the same settings.
After creating a new portal or editing a default one, you must authorize the portal for use. Once you authorize a portal for use, any subsequent configuration changes you make are effective immediately.
You do not need to authorize the My Devices portal for use.
If you choose to delete a portal, you must first delete any authorization policy rules and authorization profiles associated with it or modify them to use another portal.
Use this table for the tasks related to configuring the different Device portals.
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Enable Policy Services
To support the Cisco ISE end-user web portals, you must enable portal-policy services on the node on which you want to host them.
Procedure
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Choose |
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Click the node and click Edit. |
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On the General Settings tab, check Policy Service. |
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Check the Enable Session Services option. |
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Click Save. |
Add Certificates to the Device Portal
If you do not want to use the default certificates, you can add a valid certificate and assign it to a certificate group tag. The default certificate group tag used for all end-user web portals is Default Portal Certificate Group.
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BYOD Does not support certificate chains longer than three certificates. |
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Chose . |
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Add a system certificate and assign it to a certificate group tag that you want to use for the portal. This certificate group tag will be available to select during
portal creation or editing.
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Choose . |
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Select the specific certificate group tag from the Certificate Group Tag drop-down list that is associated with the newly added certificate. |
Create External Identity Sources
Cisco ISE can connect with external identity sources such as Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS Token, and RSA SecurID servers to obtain user information for authentication and authorization. External identity sources also include certificate authentication profiles that you need for certificate-based authentications.
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To work with passive identity services, which enable you to receive and share authenticated user identities, see Additional Passive Identity Service Providers. |
Procedure
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Choose . |
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Choose one of these options:
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Create Identity Source Sequences
Before you begin
Ensure that you have configured your external identity sources in Cisco ISE.
To perform the following task, you must be a Super Admin or System Admin.
For allowing guest users to authenticate through Local WebAuth, you must configure both the Guest Portal authentication source and the identity source sequence to contain the same identity stores.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
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Enter a name for the identity source sequence. You can also enter an optional description. |
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Check the Select Certificate Authentication Profile check box and choose a certificate authentication profile for certificate-based authentication. |
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Choose the database or databases that you want to include in the identity source sequence in the Selected List box. |
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Rearrange the databases in the Selected list in the order in which you want Cisco ISE to search the databases. |
| Step 6 |
Choose one of the following options in the Advanced Search List area:
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Click Submit to create the identity source sequence that you can then use in policies. |
Create Endpoint Identity Groups
Cisco ISE groups endpoints that it discovers in to the corresponding endpoint identity groups. Cisco ISE comes with several system-defined endpoint identity groups. You can also create additional endpoint identity groups from the Endpoint Identity Groups page. You can edit or delete the endpoint identity groups that you have created. You can only edit the description of the system-defined endpoint identity groups; you cannot edit the name of these groups or delete them.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
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Click Add. |
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Enter the name for the endpoint identity group that you want to create (do not include spaces in the name of the endpoint identity group). |
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Enter the description for the endpoint identity group that you want to create. |
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Click the Parent Group drop-down list to choose an endpoint identity group to which you want to associate the newly created endpoint identity group. |
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Click Submit. |
Edit the Blacklist Portal
Cisco ISE provides a single Blacklist portal that displays information when a lost or stolen device that is blacklisted in Cisco ISE is attempting to access your corporate network.
You can only edit the default portal settings and customize the default message that displays for the portal. You cannot create a new Blacklist portal, or duplicate or delete the default portal.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have the required certificates configured for use with this portal.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
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Provide a unique Portal Name and a Description for the portal. Ensure that the
portal name that you use here is not used for any other end-user portals.
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Use the Languages menu to export and import language files to use with the portal. |
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Update the default values for certificate group tags, languages and so on in Portal Settings, and define behavior that applies to the overall portal.
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On the Portal Page Customization tab, customize the page title and message text that appears in the portal when an unauthorized device is attempting to gain access to the network. |
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Click Save and then Close. |
Create a BYOD Portal
You can provide a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) portal to enable employees to register their personal devices, so that registration and supplicant configuration can be done before allowing access to the network.
You can create a new BYOD portal, or you can edit or duplicate an existing one. You can delete any BYOD portal, including the default portal provided by Cisco ISE.
Any changes that you make to the Page Settings on the Portal Behavior and Flow Settings tab are reflected in the graphical flow in the device portal flow diagram. If you enable a page, such as the Support Information page, it appears in the flow and the employee will experience it in the portal. If you disable it, it is removed from the flow.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have the required certificates and endpoint identity groups configured for use with this portal.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
| Step 2 |
Provide a unique Portal Name and a Description for the portal. Ensure that the
portal name that you use here is not used for any other end-user portals.
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| Step 3 |
Use the Language File drop-down menu to export and import language files to use with the portal. |
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Update the default values for ports, certificate group tags, endpoint identity groups and so on in Portal Settings, and define behavior that applies to the overall portal. |
| Step 5 |
Update the Support Information Page Settings to help employees provide information that the Help Desk can use to troubleshoot network access issues. |
| Step 6 |
On the Portal Page Customization tab, customize the Content Area message text that appears on the following pages during the provisioning process:
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| Step 7 |
Click Save and then Close. |
What to do next
You must authorize the portal in order to use it. You can also customize your portal either before or after you authorize it for use.
Create a Certificate Provisioning Portal
Cisco ISE provides a Certificate Provisioning portal that allows you to request for certificates for devices that cannot go through the onboarding flow. For example, devices such as point-of-sale terminals. You can request for a single certificate or make a bulk certificate request using a CSV file.
You can edit the default portal settings and customize the messages that appear on the portal. You can also create, duplicate, and delete the Certificate Provisioning portal.
There are two types of users who can access the Certificate Provisioning portal:
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Internal or external users with administrative privileges—Can generate certificate(s) for themselves as well as for others.
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All other users—Can generate certificate(s) only for themselves.
Users (network access users) who are assigned the Super Admin or ERS Admin role have access to this portal and can request certificates for others. However, if you create a new internal admin user and assign the Super Admin or ERS Admin role, the internal admin user will not have access to this portal. You must first create a network access user and then add the user to the Super Admin or ERS Admin group. Any existing network access users who are added to the Super Admin or ERS Admin group will have access to this portal.
To create an administrator account to access the Certificate Provisioning portal:
- Add an internal user (Administration > Identity Management > Identities > Users > Add).
- Add the user to the Super Admin or ERS Admin group (Administration > Admin Access > Administrators > Admin Users > Add > Select from existing network access user). The user is now both an internal network access user and a Super Admin or ERS Admin user.
For other users to be able to access the portal and to generate certificates for themselves, configure the Certificate Provisioning Portal Settings (Administration > Device Portal Management > Certificate Provisioning Portal > Create, Edit or Duplicate > Portal Behavior and Flow Settings > Portal Settings). Ensure that you choose the appropriate identity source or identity source sequence under Authentication Method and choose the user group under Configure Authorized Groups. All users who belong to the groups that you choose will have access to the portal and can generate certificates for themselves.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have the required certificates configured for use with this portal.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . Ensure that the portal name that you use here is not used for any other end-user portals. |
| Step 2 |
Provide a unique Portal Name and a Description for the portal. |
| Step 3 |
Use the Language File menu to export and import language files to use with the portal |
| Step 4 |
Update the default values for certificate group tags, languages and so on in Portal Settings, and define behavior that applies to the overall portal. |
| Step 5 |
On the Portal Page Customization tab, customize the page title and message text that appears in the portal. |
| Step 6 |
Click Save and then Close. |
Create a Client Provisioning Portal
You can provide a Client Provisioning portal to enable employees to download the Cisco AnyConnect posture component , which verifies the posture compliance of the device before allowing access to the network.
You can create a new Client Provisioning portal, or you can edit or duplicate an existing one. You can delete any Client Provisioning portal, including the default portal provided by Cisco ISE.
Users (network access users) who are assigned the Super Admin or ERS Admin role have access to this portal. However, if you create a new internal admin user and assign the Super Admin or ERS Admin role, the internal admin user will not have access to this portal. You must first create a network access user and then add the user to the Super Admin or ERS Admin group. Any existing network access users who are added to the Super Admin or ERS Admin group will have access to this portal.
To create an administrator account to access the Client Provisioning portal:
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Add an internal user (Administration > Identity Management > Identities > Users > Add).
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Add the user to the Super Admin or ERS Admin group (Administration > Admin Access > Administrators > Admin Users > Add > Select from existing network access user). The user is now both an internal network access user and a Super Admin or ERS Admin user.
For other users to be able to access the portal and to generate certificates for themselves, configure the Client Provisioning Portal Settings (Administration > Device Portal Management > Client Provisioning > Create, Edit or Duplicate > Portal Behavior and Flow Settings > Portal Settings). Ensure that you choose the appropriate identity source or identity source sequence under Authentication Method and choose the user group under Configure Authorized Groups. All users who belong to the groups that you choose will have access to the portal.
Any changes that you make to the Page Settings on the Portal Behavior and Flow Settings tab are reflected in the graphical flow in the device portal flow diagram. If you enable a page, such as the Support Information page, it appears in the flow and the employee will experience it in the portal. If you disable it, it is removed from the flow.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have the required certificates and client provisioning policies configured for use with this portal.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
| Step 2 |
Provide a unique Portal Name and a Description for the portal. Ensure that the
portal name that you use here is not used for any other end-user portals.
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| Step 3 |
Use the Language File drop-down menu to export and import language files to use with the portal. |
| Step 4 |
Update the default values for ports, certificate group tags, endpoint identity groups and so on in Portal Settings, and define behavior that applies to the overall portal. |
| Step 5 |
Update the Support Information Page Settings to help employees provide information that the Help Desk can use to troubleshoot network access issues. |
| Step 6 |
On the Portal Page Customization tab, customize the Content Area message text that appears in the Client Provisioning portal during the provisioning process: |
| Step 7 |
Click Save and then Close. |
What to do next
You must authorize the portal in order to use it. You can also customize your portal either before or after you authorize it for use.
Create an MDM Portal
You can provide a Mobile Device Management (MDM) portal to enable employees to manage their mobile devices that are registered for use on your corporate network.
You can create a new MDM portal, or you can edit or duplicate an existing one. You can have a single MDM portal for all of your MDM systems or you can create a portal for each system. You can delete any MDM portal, including the default portal provided by Cisco ISE. The default portal is for third-party MDM providers.
You can create a new MDM portal, or you can edit or duplicate an existing one. You can delete any MDM portal, including the default portal provided by Cisco ISE. The default portal is for third-party MDM providers.
Any changes that you make to the Page Settings on the Portal Behavior and Flow Settings tab are reflected in the graphical flow in the device portal flow diagram. If you enable a page, such as the Support Information page, it appears in the flow and the employee will experience it in the portal. If you disable it, it is removed from the flow.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have the required certificates and endpoint identity groups configured for use with this portal.
Procedure
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Choose . |
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Provide a unique Portal Name and a Description for the portal. Ensure that the
portal name that you use here is not used for any other end-user portals.
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Use the Language File drop-down menu to export and import language files to use with the portal. |
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Update the default values for ports, certificate group tags, endpoint identity groups and so on in Portal Settings, and define behavior that applies to the overall portal. |
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Update the following settings that apply to each of the specific pages:
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On the Portal Page Customization tab, customize the Content Area messages that appears in the MDM portal during the device enrollment process:
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Click Save and then Close. |
What to do next
You must authorize the portal in order to use it. You can also customize your portal either before or after you authorize it for use. Also see the following topics:
Create a My Devices Portal
You can provide a My Devices portal to enable employees to add and register their personal devices that do not support native supplicants and cannot be added using the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) portal. You can then use the My Devices portal to manage all devices that have been added using either portal.
You can create a new My Devices portal, or you can edit or duplicate an existing one. You can delete any My Devices portal, including the default portal provided by Cisco ISE.
Any changes that you make to the Page Settings on the Portal Behavior and Flow Settings tab are reflected in the graphical flow in the device portal flow diagram. If you enable a page, such as the Support Information page, it appears in the flow and the employee will experience it in the portal. If you disable it, it is removed from the flow.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have the required certificates, external identity stores, identity source sequences, and endpoint identity groups configured for use with this portal.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
| Step 2 |
Provide a unique Portal Name and a Description for the portal. Ensure that the
portal name that you use here is not used for any other end-user portals.
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| Step 3 |
Use the Language File drop-down menu to export and import language files to use with the portal. |
| Step 4 |
Update the default values for ports, certificate group tags, identity source sequences, endpoint identity groups, and so on in Portal Settings, and define behavior that applies to the overall portal. |
| Step 5 |
Update the following settings that apply to each of the specific pages:
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| Step 6 |
In the Portal Page Customization tab, customize the following information that appears in the My Devices portal during registration and management:
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| Step 7 |
Click Save and then Close. |
What to do next
You can customize the portal if you want to change its appearance. See
Create Authorization Profiles
Before you begin
You must create a portal before you can authorize it.
Procedure
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Set up a special authorization profile for the portal. |
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Create an authorization policy rule for the profile. |
Create Authorization Profiles
Each portal requires that you set up a special authorization profile for it.
Before you begin
If you do not plan to use a default portal, you must first create the portal so you can associate the portal name with the authorization profile.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
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Create an authorization profile using the name of the portal that you want to authorize for use. |
What to do next
You should create a portal authorization policy rule that uses the newly created authorization profile.
Create Authorization Policy Rules
To configure the redirection URL for a portal to use when responding to the users' (guests, sponsors, employees) access requests, define an authorization policy rule for that portal.
The url-redirect takes the following form based on the portal type, where:
ip:port = the IP address and port number
PortalID = the unique portal name
For a Hotspot Guest portal: https://ip:port/guestportal/gateway?sessionID=SessionIdValue&portal=PortalID&action=cwa&type=drw
For a Mobile Device Management (MDM) portal: https://ip:port/mdmportal/gateway?sessionID=SessionIdValue&portal=PortalID&action=mdm
Procedure
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Choose to create a new authorization policy rule under Standard policies. |
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For Conditions, select an endpoint identity group that you want to use for the portal validation. For example, for the Hotspot Guest portal, select the default GuestEndpoints endpoint identity group and, for the MDM portal, select the default RegisteredDevices endpoint identity group.
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For Permissions, select the portal authorization profile that you created. |
Customize Device Portals
You can customize the portal appearance and user (guests, sponsors, or employees as applicable) experience by customizing the portal themes, changing UI elements on the portal pages, and editing error messages and notifications that display to the users. For more information about customizing portals, see the Customization of End-User Web Portals section in .
Manage Personal Devices Added by Employees
When employees register a device using the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or the My Devices portals, it displays in the Endpoints list. Although employees can disassociate a device from their account by deleting it, the device remains in the Cisco ISE database. As a result, employees might need your assistance in resolving errors they encounter when working with their devices.
Display Devices Added by an Employee
You can locate devices added by a specific employee using the Portal User field displayed on the Endpoints listing page. This might be useful if you need to delete devices registered by a specific user. By default, this field does not display, so you must enable it first before searching.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
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Click the Settings icon and choose Columns. |
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Select Portal User to display this information in the Endpoints listing. |
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Click the Show drop-down list and choose Quick Filter. |
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Enter the user’s name in the Portal User field to display only the endpoints that are assigned to that particular user. |
Errors When Adding Devices to My Devices Portal
Employees cannot add a device that was already added by another employee, and that device is still in the endpoints database.
If employees attempt to add a device that already exists in the Cisco ISE database:
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And it supports native supplicant provisioning, we recommend adding the device through the BYOD portal. This overwrites any registration details that were created when it was initially added to the network.
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If the device is a MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) device, such as a printer, then first resolve ownership of the device. If appropriate, you can remove the device from the endpoints database using the Admin portal, so that the new owner can successfully add the device using the My Devices portal.
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The My Devices portal is not available when the Administrator's portal is down. |
Devices Deleted from My Devices Portal Remain in Endpoints Database
When an employee deletes a device from the My Devices portal, the device is removed from the employee’s list of registered devices, but the device remains in the Cisco ISE endpoints database and displays in the Endpoints list.
To permanently delete the device from the Endpoints page, choose .
Limit the Number of Personal Devices Registered by Employees
You can allow employees to register between 1 and 999 personal devices. Regardless of the portal that employees used to register their personal devices, this setting defines the maximum number of devices registered across all portals.
Procedure
| Step 1 |
Choose . |
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Enter the maximum number of devices that an employee can register in Restrict employees to. By default, this value is set to 5 devices. |
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Click Save. If you do not want to save any updates you made to the settings, click Reset to revert to the last saved values. |
Monitor My Devices Portals and Endpoints Activity
Cisco ISE provides various reports and logs that allow you to view endpoint and user management information and guest and sponsor activity. Some of the Cisco ISE 1.2 reports have been deprecated, but the information can be viewed in other reports.
You can run these reports either on demand or on a scheduled basis.
Procedure
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Choose . |
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Under the Report Selector, expand the Guest Access Reports and Endpoints and Users selections to view the various guest, sponsor, and endpoint related reports. |
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Select the report and choose the data with which you want to search using the Filters drop-down list. You can use filters on username, portal name, device name, endpoint identity group and other such data. |
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Select the Time Range during which you want to view the data. |
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Click Run. |
My Devices Login and Audit Report
The My Devices Login and Audit report is a combined report that tracks:
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Login activity by employees at the My Devices portal.
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Device-related operations performed by the employees in the My Devices portal.
This report is available at: .
Registered Endpoints Report
The Registered Endpoints report provides information about all the endpoints that are registered by employees. This report is available at: . You can run a query on the following: identity, endpoint ID, identity profile, and the like, and you can generate a report. For information on supplicant provisioning statistics and related data, see Viewing Client Provisioning Reports.
You can query the endpoint database for endpoints that are assigned to the RegisteredDevices endpoint identity group. You can also generate reports for specific users that have the Portal User attribute set to a non-null value.
The Registered Endpoints Report provides information about a list of endpoints that are registered through device registration portals by a specific user for a selected period of time.
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