Use the Cloud Identity Engine to retrieve user and group
information for Prisma Access.
Prisma Access retrieves user and group information
from your organization’s cloud directory or Active Directory (AD)
to enforce user- and group-based policy. You can simplify the retrieval
of user and group information by using the
Cloud Identity Engine.
In
addition to simplifying user and group information retrieval, integrating
the Cloud Identity Engine with Prisma Access can free up the bandwidth
and load on your cloud directory or AD. Without Cloud Identity Engine
integration, all the remote networks and mobile users nodes in your
Prisma Access deployment, including nodes in a Mobile Users—GlobalProtect
and Mobile Users—Explicit Proxy deployment, individually communicate
with your cloud directory or AD using the service connection.
You
can use the Cloud Identity Engine to retrieve user and group information
for Prisma Access for mobile users, remote networks, or both, by
completing the following steps.
The Cloud Identity Engine
integration with Prisma Access has the following implementation
restrictions:
Make sure that the groups you use with
Cloud Identity Engine do not have any of the following special characters,
because Prisma Access does not support the use of following special
characters in groups and commit operations will fail:
"
(Double quotes)
' (Apostrophe)
< (less than sign)
> (greater than sign)
& (ampersand)
If you associate Cloud Identity Engine with Prisma Access,
your user names must use the NetBIOS format that includes the domain.
You can specify usernames in email format (username@domain), NetBIOS\sAMAccountName format,
or User Principal Name (UPN) format (username@domain.com).
Group names must be in the distinguishedName format
(for example, CN=Users,CN=Builtin,DC=Example,DC=com).
Cloud Identity Engine does not apply any settings you specify
in the
group include list ();
instead, it retrieves user and group information from your entire configuration,
including groups used in all device groups and templates.