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Using FSAE on your network 

Installing FSAE on your network

Fortinet Server Authentication Extension Version 1.5 Technical Note
01-30005-0373-20071001

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Installing FSAE on your network

FSAE has two components that you must install on your network:

The domain controller (DC) agent, which must be installed on every domain 
controller

The collector agent, which must be installed on at least one domain controller

The FSAE installer first installs the collector agent. You can then continue with 
installation of the DC agent, or install it later by going to 

Start > Programs > 

Fortinet > Fortinet Server Authentication Extension > Install DC Agent

. The 

installer installs a DC agent on the domain controllers of all of the trusted domains 
in your network.

If you install the collector agent on two or more domain controllers, you can create 
a redundant configuration on the FortiGate unit for greater reliability. If the current 
collector agent fails, the FortiGate unit switches to the next one in its list of up to 
five collector agents.

You must install FSAE using an account that has administrator privileges. You can 
use the default Administrator account, but then you must re-configure FSAE each 
time the account password changes. Fortinet recommends that you create a 
dedicated account with administrator privileges and a password that does not 
expire.

Installing FSAE

To install FSAE, you must obtain the FortiClient Setup file from the Fortinet 
Support web site. Perform the following installation procedure on the computer 
that will run the Collector Agent. This can be any server or domain controller that 
is part of your network. The procedure also installs the DC Agent on all of the 
domain controllers in your network.

1

Create an account with administrator privileges and a password that doesn’t 
expire. See Microsoft Advanced Server documentation for more information.

2

Log into the account that you created in Step 

1

.

3

Double-click the FSAESetup.exe file.

The FSAE InstallShield Wizard starts.

4

Select Next. Optionally, you can change the location where FSAE is installed.

5

Select Next.

6

By default, FSAE authenticates users both by monitoring logons and by accepting 
authentication requests using the NTLM protocol.

If you want to support only NTLM authentication, disable the option to Monitor 
user logon events. Ensure that the option to Serve NTLM authentication 
requests is enabled.

If you do not want to support NTLM authentication, disable the option to Serve 
NTLM authentication requests. Ensure that the option to Monitor user logon 
events is enabled.

You can also change these options after installation.

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Select Next and then select Install.

8

In the Password field, enter the password for the account listed in the User Name 
field. This is the account you are logged into currently.

Summary of Contents for Fortinet 1.5

Page 1: ...www fortinet com Fortinet Server Authentication Extension Version 1 5 T E C H N I C A L N O T E...

Page 2: ...Trademarks Dynamic Threat Prevention System DTPS APSecure FortiASIC FortiBIOS FortiBridge FortiClient FortiGate FortiGate Unified Threat Management System FortiGuard FortiGuard Antispam FortiGuard Ant...

Page 3: ...Ignore List 11 Configuring FortiGate group filters 11 To view the FortiGate Filter List 12 To configure a FortiGate group filter 12 Configuring TCP ports 13 Configuring FSAE on FortiGate units 14 Spe...

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Page 5: ...the FortiGate unit so that users automatically get access to permitted resources FortiGate units control access to resources based on user groups Through FSAE the Windows Active Directory AD groups ar...

Page 6: ...t by the FSAE agent on the domain controller and if authentication is successful the information is then sent via the collector agent to the FortiGate unit Figure 2 NTLM FSAE implementation In Figure...

Page 7: ...tor privileges and a password that does not expire Installing FSAE To install FSAE you must obtain the FortiClient Setup file from the Fortinet Support web site Perform the following installation proc...

Page 8: ...e able to authenticate to FortiGate units using FSAE You can also do this later See Configuring FSAE on Windows AD on page 8 15 Select Next 16 Optionally clear the check boxes of domain controllers on...

Page 9: ...Professional Configuring Windows AD server user groups FortiGate units control access at the group level All members of a group have the same network access as defined in FortiGate firewall policies Y...

Page 10: ...st Exclude users such as system accounts that do not authenticate to any FortiGate unit See Configuring the Global Ignore List on page 11 FortiGate Group Filter Configure group filtering for each Fort...

Page 11: ...nada Timers Workstation verify interval Enter the interval in minutes at which FSAE checks whether the user is still logged in The default is every 5 minutes If ports 139 or 445 cannot be opened on yo...

Page 12: ...te If no filter is defined for a FortiGate unit and there is no default filter the collector agent sends all Windows AD group and user logon events to the FortiGate unit While this normally is not a p...

Page 13: ...rs on page 11 in the Configuring collector agent settings section Default Select to create the default filter The default filter applies to any FortiGate unit that does not have a specific filter defi...

Page 14: ...sses these servers in the order that they appear in the list If a server becomes unavailable the unit accesses the next one in the list To specify collector agents 1 Go to User Windows AD and select C...

Page 15: ...hould be belong to only one FortiGate user group If you assign it to multiple FortiGate user groups the FortiGate unit recognizes only the last user group assignment To create a user group for FSAE au...

Page 16: ...ting firewall policies Policies that require FSAE authentication are very similar to other firewall policies Currently only one single authentication firewall policy can be configured if the source in...

Page 17: ...ortiGate unit 2 Try to connect to the resource that is protected by the firewall policy requiring authentication via FSAE You should be able to connect to the resource without being asked for username...

Page 18: ...oded with the client password it may contain the challenge nonce twice using different algorithms 6 The FortiGate unit checks with the FSAE client over port 8000 to see if the authentication hash matc...

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