Forum Discussion

Icon for Cirrus rank

Cirrus

Jul 20, 2023

Remote User Authentication (e.g. F5 admins) using Azure Active Directory

Hi!

Is there an option to integrate F5 to authenticate F5 admins, auditors, etc. with Azure Active Direcoty?

We need to have UserDB taken from there

This is the only article I found - but it talks about AD, not AAD

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-12-1-0/28.html

application delivery

User auth via AAD

whisperer
Jul 20, 2023
If you configure Microsoft AD DS then you can use LDAP calls to Microsoft AAD. LDAP has always been supported by F5 Networks for admin auth. So you would use that as normal. HOWEVER, you need to configure Microsoft AD DS.

whisperer
MVP
Jul 20, 2023
Configure Microsoft AD DS:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/auth-ldap
This exposes classic LDAP access and use as normal with the current F5 function capabilities.
shadow82
Cirrus
Jul 20, 2023
ok. and classic AD to AAD is also possible?
If yes, then which would be simpler to implement?
- whisperer
  MVP
  Jul 20, 2023
  If you configure Microsoft AD DS then you can use LDAP calls to Microsoft AAD. LDAP has always been supported by F5 Networks for admin auth. So you would use that as normal. HOWEVER, you need to configure Microsoft AD DS.
  - shadow82
    Cirrus
    Jul 20, 2023
    Thanks a lot!
    I'll go this way then