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Rupesh_M
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Aug 19, 2014

What is use of Profile Type while creating Access Policy

In 11.5.0 there are different profile types are available. We have created profile type “ All” for VPN access. As per document it is suggested to use “SSL-VPN” for remote access. What is impact of selecting "All" instead of specific profile type, how it will impact VPN functionality, performance and other parameters ?

 

  • LTM-APM: For web access only
  • SSL-VPN: For remote access only
  • SWG-Explicit: For Secure Web Gateway explicit forward proxy
  • SWG-Transparent: For Secure Web Gateway transparent forward proxy
  • SSO: For single sign-on without an access policy
  • All: For most uses
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  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Aug 19, 2014

    AFAIK (And I admit I'm prepared to be corrected on this one), the effect on performance should be... none...

     

    The different profiles simply pre-select some options. For example SWG-xxx selects NTLM authentication... SSO just lets you configure SSO parameters etc.

     

    So in essence simply making the configuration less confusing when you quickly want to configure a specific type of access policy profile.

     

    H