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Administrator Guide
Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
Administration
Settings
Users management
The Users management page shows all the pages that you need to let you manage authentication and authorization policies for users and groups.
SAML
Nozomi Networks supports security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) authentication.

Guardian
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
  - Administration
    - Administration page
      The administration page lets a user with administrator privileges configure settings and do other tasks.
    - Settings
      - Security control panel
        The Security control panel page shows an overview of the current status of the learning process and lets you configure the features that manage the: learning, security profile, zones, alerts tuning, and alert closing options.
      - Features control panel
        The Features control panel page shows an overview of the current status of system features configuration and lets you fine tune specific values.
      - Users management
        The Users management page shows all the pages that you need to let you manage authentication and authorization policies for users and groups.
        Users
        The Users page shows a list of users and lets you create and delete users, and change the password and/or username of existing users.
        Groups
        The Groups page shows a list of all the user groups.
        OpenAPI Keys
        The OpenAPI Keys page lets you manage the openAPI keys. You can use OpenAPI keys for bearer token authentication instead of basic authentication, which uses a username and password.
        Active Directory
        In addition to local users, you can configure existing Active Directory users for login.
        Configure Active Directory integration
        The Active Directory page lets you configure integration.
        LDAP
        The LDAP page shows a list of all the lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) configurations.
        SAML
        Nozomi Networks supports security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) authentication.
        Configure SAML integration
        The SAML page lets you add and configure security assertion markup language (SAML).
      - CLI
        The CLI page lets you change configuration parameters and perform troubleshooting activities.
      - Dashboards
        The Dashboards page lets you create and configure widget-based dashboards that provide information about your network. The dashboards created here will show on the Guardian home page, and give an overview of the monitored environment.
      - Threat Intelligence
        The Threat Intelligence page lets you manage packet rules, YARA rules, Sigma rules, structured threat information expression (STIX) indicators and vulnerabilities to provide detailed threat information.
      - Data model
        The Data model page lets you create a custom field to the Nodes (All-In-One CMC only) and Assets tables. A custom field lets you add information that might be relevant to your organization, and cannot be extracted from network traffic.
      - Data integration
      - Firewall integration
        The Firewall integrations page shows all the firewall integrations and lets you add new ones.
      - Credentials manager
        The Credentials manager is a tool that lets you centralize the management of monitored endpoints to make it easier to create, delete, or update the credentials that are needed to access those endpoints.
      - Zone configurations
        The Zone configurations page shows all the zone configurations in your environment and lets you add new zone configurations and edit them.
      - Synchronization settings
        The Synchronization settings page lets you customize the parameters related to Vantage or Central Management Console (CMC).
      - Alert playbooks
    - System
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

SAML

Nozomi Networks supports security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) authentication.

SAML page — Figure 1. SAML page

General

Your identity provider (IdP) must be compatible with security assertion markup language (SAML) 2.0.

The SAML configuration process is often error-prone. To implement SAML integration you should be familiar with:

The SAML protocol
Your IdP software
The exact details of your specific IdP implementation

Additional configuration

Typically, SAML with authentication, replies are sent back from the same host that originally received the request. Occasionally, SAML requests are chained between different IdPs, and replies might come from a different host. By default, the Web user interface (UI) content security rules block these types of replies.

You can use the using the csp form-action-urls configuration key to override this behavior.

To accept replies from an IdP single sign-on (SSO) target uniform resource locator (URL) that differs from the one specified in the SAML metadata, you can issue the configuration rule: conf.user configure csp form-actionurls <additional_url> in the command-line interface (CLI).

If you need to specify more than one URL, you should use spaces to separate them. After this change, you need to run the service webserver stop command, in a shell console to apply it.

Clock skew

Occasionally, the IdP and Guardian system times can differ. By default, the system accepts requests with up to 60 seconds difference. You can use the saml clock_drift configuration key to override this behavior.

To change the value, you can issue conf.user configure saml clock_drift <allowed_seconds> in the CLI.

After this change, you can run the service webserver stop command in a shell console to apply it.

Limitations

The SAML logout protocol is not supported.