03-18-2019 11:56 AM
Hi , I'm new to Palo Alto Traps Endpoint platform. I have a question regarding Traps Installation for On-Site Standalone deployment
- Do we need to configure Active Directory in our environment before installing Traps ? Is Active Directory mandatory for Traps ESM and Agents installation?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
03-18-2019 12:08 PM
ESM will handle things perfectly fine without Active Directory.
03-18-2019 12:13 PM
Hello @m.hassan96,
Active Directory is not a requirement for Traps deployment, and Traps will work fine without it.
Active Directory can be integrated with Traps to authenticate ESM Administrators, and to use Active Directory objects, and also it will make it easier for big environments to push the certificates through a GPO if SSL is being used.
But still it is not a requirement.
03-18-2019 12:21 PM
@BPry , @AbdulRahman_Safwat Thanks for your replies. So I just need to Configure ESM , install Trap Agents on Workload VMs and specify IP of ESM server and thats it. Agents will be able to pull updates and security policies from ESM server on that IP address, no furthur configuration or authentication is required. Is that right? Kindly correct me if I'm wrong
03-18-2019 12:27 PM
Correct. When you install the ESM you'll ideally specify a certificate signed by a trusted CA so that the Client and the server can securely determine whether or not they trust each other; the Server itself will need to be allowed access to the outside to pull the updates, but the agents themselves will pull the updates from the ESM on port 2125 (by default).
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