user-id agent sending IP mapping with blank/no username

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user-id agent sending IP mapping with blank/no username

L3 Networker

Dear community,

 

I have an environment where I monitor the AD servers with Windows user-ID agents to retrieve the user-ip mappings

 

There are users with several AD accounts and it´s normal seeing the same IP being mapped to different usernames deppending on what resources the user gets access to.

 

Sometimes I see randomly in the traffic logs the username blank associated to the IPs and the deny policies are applied to this traffic. It happens like this:

Minute X: user-mapping is okay

Minute X+1: user-mapping is blank

Minute X+3: user-mapping is okay again

 

I checked with "show log userid ip in <IP> direction equal backward" what mapping the user-id agent are sending and I realized that when I see no-mapping or blank mapping on the traffic logs, the mapping the user-id agent is sending to the firewall associated to the IP is the machine name. Like this: domain\machine_name

 

Is expected the user-id agent sending the mapping in that format?

 

Thank you for your answers.

 

 

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Community Team Member

Hi @Carracido ,

 

Did you know you can ignore users in User-ID ?

Generally, this is used for service accounts, but any desired username can be entered:

 

https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClklCAC

 

Hope this helps,

-Kiwi.

 
LIVEcommunity team member, CISSP
Cheers,
Kiwi
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