Authentication
Enabling authentication allows the Administrator to determine whether or not hosts connecting to the network will be forced to authenticate. Hosts can be forced to reauthenticate after a specified period of time.
Once a host is registered the host connecting via a wired connection may or may not have to authenticate depending on what port is being used. Hosts connecting via a wireless connection will be forced to authenticate if an Authentication VLAN has been established.
Switches used in the Forced Authentication process must have a value entered for the Authentication VLAN in the model configuration. The ports on these switches must be added to the Forced Authentication group. See Groups view for details on adding ports to a group.
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LDAP |
Use LDAP to configure the connection to one or more authentication directories. Data from the Directory populates the FortiNAC database with demographic data for registered users. |