URL filtering and User ID

[Lahcen]

Hi All,

   Please I want to know is it possible to perform URL filetring and activate user ID in the case of Virtual wire deployement:

My concern is as follow:

  -Can I connect with an LDAP server (i.e: Active Directory) in virtual wire deployement mode to try to attrieve users credentials and do an IP to user ID mapping.

  -if it's yes so what will be the benefit of layer 3 over vwire in my case knowing that my need is just to do URL filtering and to have visibility into users traffic and also traffic shippement by users and applications.

  -Please can someone send me the procedure to connect with Active directory server. and specify when i need to install  the panagent.

Thanks in advance;

[panos]

Hi,

For vwire you are able to do that.if you are talking only for that purpose, Layer3 has no differences.

Layer3 will provide extra :

Vpn functions(Global Protect, ipsec) ,

manage the device with layer3 interfaces(management profile options),

Dynamic routing protocols.

For user id this will help you

User-ID Best Practices - PAN-OS 5.0, 6.0

[Lahcen]

@panos

thanks for your reply,

Please one other question For traffic shapping and QoS by user and application can I do it in Vwire mode?

best regards,

[jburugupalli]

Hello Lahcen,

Configuring Qos on V-wire is nothing different than configuring it on other type of interfaces. Doc about Qos in PAN.

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-3439

Qos rules matches exactly what is configured in that rule and apply Qos profile matching the rule exactly like security policies. If we you apply Qos policy for set of users,Qos profile and Qos class matching the rule will be applied only for that users. And if you want you also can enable Qos policy only at certain time range by using the schedule feature.

Regards,

Jahnavi.