I love innovation and the idea of removing complexity. I worked for a manager once and during our usual 1:1 meeting, he told me one day that I don’t want to you to be the guy who always looks at a blinking yellow light and press a button to make it go away just because…
Category: Nile Secure
Wired 802.1X with Nile Cloud RADIUS
My previous post was about configuring Nile Cloud RADIUS. All the testing shown in there was using the Wi-Fi clients. What about the Wired Clients? This has always been a bit complicated to achieve and takes a decent amount of work. Here is my client, connected to employee segA as per policy. Switch 4 and…
Nile Cloud RADIUS – Configuring Nile Cloud RADIUS
Long awaited and it is finally here and I was able to get my hands on it for some testing, “Nile Trust Service and Nile Cloud RADIUS“. This post is going to be all about Nile Cloud RADIUS, I will get into the Nile Trust Service in another post because there is a bunch there….
MAB APIs and Python – Nile’s way
Been a while but I have been doing some tinkering with Nile’s MAB APIs to manage wired client devices and assign them to certain segments. There are multiple ways to do this: I was working with the MAB APIs to see what kind of automation can be created with it. Steps that my script takes:…
Nile DHCP – DHCP Reservation
Nile Cloud DHCP server allows DHCP Reservations and it can hand out the IPs to the devices that require fixed IP addresses. You can directly assign static IP addresses to these devices also and configure them in the system as Static IP under “Access Management”. But I find using DHCP reservations to be an easier…
Nile Portal and Wireless SSO with Okta
I have written about setting up SSO using Okta to access Nile Portal and Wi-Fi access using SSO using Okta. With this setup I ran into a scenario with Two Factor Authentication, where Wireless users were having to go through the Two Factor Authentication as well since that was the default setting in Okta. While…
Secure Wired Access with SSO: Simplifying Network Authentication
You want to use some form of network authentication, 802.1X is an option but you need a RADIUS server for it. You don’t have a RADIUS server, nor do you have any budget and resources for it. Previously, I have written on Effortless Wi-Fi Access with SSO: Simplifying Network Authentication. Many places are starting to…
Effortless Wi-Fi Access with SSO: Simplifying Network Authentication
Many organizations are allowing BYoD and figuring out ways to secure those devices. What are some ways I have seen this done: Previously I have written up on setting up Nile – Okta SAML integration and SSO for the dashboard login. I had to setup SSO with Nile for some BYoD stuff and would like…
Nile – Okta SAML integration
Nile integrates well with directory services using SAML 2.0. This integration can be used for SSO/RBAC to Nile dashboard and also for wired and wireless access. This write up will go over setting up Okta as an Identity Provider in Nile dashboard and SSO for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to the dashboard. Okta Setup:…
Effortless Guest Wi-Fi with Nile: From Zero to Ready in Minutes
Guest Wi-Fi access is something users demand and expect these days when they visit retail, healthcare, offices and other locations. Deploying an enterprise grade secure guest Wi-Fi solution can be complicated, time consuming, resource intensive and costly. Below is a very high level guest traffic setup using some of the traditional methods. Niles Differentiation and…