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eshaq786
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Multiple Firewalls - Central Captive Portal

Does anyone know of a way to centrally manage guest access for multiple firewalls at multiple sites? It appears that guest management setup on a firewall is only for that particular site.

 

If central management is not possible, can someone recommend a free captive portal software that we can run as a virtual machine or even install on a windows server where we can manage guest access i.e. provide credentials.

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Baptiste
Contributor II

You have to use Fortiauthenticator for central user management

2 FGT 100D  + FTK200

3 FGT 60E  FAZ VM  some FAP 210B/221C/223C/321C/421E

2 FGT 100D + FTK200 3 FGT 60E FAZ VM some FAP 210B/221C/223C/321C/421E
xsilver_FTNT

FortiAuthenticator is certainly good solution I would preffer.

Alternatively you can write your own portal and on FortiGate use External Captive Portal option.

[just to complete answer]

Tomas Stribrny - NASDAQ:FTNT - Fortinet Inc. - TAC Staff Engineer
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eshaq786

We do have a Fortiauthenticator but how does guest management work on that?

Baptiste

I quickly test FAC (eval licence), as far as I remember there is no "Guest" items

"Guest Users" on FGT equals "local users" on FAC

and "remote users" = fetch from your AD/LDAP/...

 

But I'm not 100% sure, if someone can confirm (or not !)

2 FGT 100D  + FTK200

3 FGT 60E  FAZ VM  some FAP 210B/221C/223C/321C/421E

2 FGT 100D + FTK200 3 FGT 60E FAZ VM some FAP 210B/221C/223C/321C/421E
Fishbone_FTNT

Hey guys,

on FAC there are no explicit "Guest users", but you can create local groups which would serve that purpose, and/or utilize self-registration portal, which will give the visitors possibility to self-register themselves into the network.

You can even try social login feature (since 4.0 I think) which will allow to identify visitors with Facebook or Google accounts (supported is also LinkedIn and one more which I can't recall right now).

 

But of course your config depends on your needs :) Definitely there is handful of possibilities to handle guest users with FAC.

 

Cheers,

 Fishbone )(

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eshaq786
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Anyone know of a alternative hotspot captive portal solution?

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