topic User-Mapping Server Monitoring in General Topics

User-Mapping Server Monitoring

Sishirkaringula — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 13:54:47 GMT

Hi All,

Wanted to know the Best Practice for the User-Mapping with Server Monitoring, we have a few Firewall Sites which utilize the server monitoring feature whereas the vast majority others do not and use only windows User-ID agents for probing and mapping. Need to know if enabling server monitoring is the best practice to gather all the IP-username Mappings information on all the firewalls.

Re: User-Mapping Server Monitoring

OtakarKlier — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:52:08 GMT

Hello,

Hope this helps out:

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-1/pan-os-admin/user-id/user-id-concepts/user-mapping/server-monitoring

https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000Cm5bCAC

Regards,

Re: User-Mapping Server Monitoring

BPry — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 19:19:31 GMT

@Sishirkaringula,

Just to expand on this, there's really not a single solution that is automatically the best way to do things. It depends a lot on what feature set you want to enable, how your users authenticate, how large your environment is, how many domains you operate with, ect.