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Machine Cert Inspection
Need some help with access policy and machine cert inspection. But first can someone clarify if Machine Cert Inspection is the only action that can be used with a machine cert or can you also use Client Cert Inspection or On-demand Cert Auth in the access policy? I understand the difference in location of machine vs client.
Here's what I'm trying to do. We want Outlook Anywhere to be accessible externally but only on company owned laptops with a valid machine cert installed. I've setup an access policy with just the Machine Cert Auth action and applied it to my VIP. I added logging at the beginning of the policy even before the Machine Cert Auth and the logs never show it hitting the access policy. The APM log just shows:
Received User-Agent header.... Received client info..... New session from client IP....
and that's it. LTM logs doesn't show anything either. I've turned on debug logging for ltm and apm but no additional info in the logs. How I'm testing is connecting company owned laptop to outside line and opening outlook. I know it's hitting the VIP from the logs but why isn't it hitting the access policy? I have configured working access policies for client cert checks but this is the first time for a machine cert check.
- Leonardo_Souza
Cirrocumulus
Can you provide an image of the access policy you have in the VPE?
- rgordon_01
Nimbostratus
Can someone clarify if Machine Cert Inspection is the only action that can be used with a machine cert or can you also use Client Cert Inspection or On-demand Cert Auth in the access policy? I understand the difference in location of machine vs client
thanks!
- Seth_Cooper
Employee
Machine certificate inspection requires to use the edge client or the browser plugins and since the outlook client is considered "clientless" then the inspection will never happen.
You should use client certificates for this use case.
-Seth
- The-messenger
Cirrostratus
how would you use client certificates with Outlook? Every attempt I've made returns no data.
- Jarad_Paul
Nimbostratus
Trying to do the exact same thing here rgordon, any resolve? Thanks!
- Cassidy_King_29
Nimbostratus
Any update? I am trying to do the same thing.
- rgordon_01
Nimbostratus
Hi Cassidy,
Company decided against allowing that and requires you to be on VPN to access the Outlook client. But I am curious about figuring out a way to make this work. If I do I'll make sure to post the answer. Sorry
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