Active Directory Agent; Product Feature Overview - M86 Security M86 Web Filter User Manual

Active Directory Agent

Active Directory Agent is a Windows service that provides
transparent user identification for Windows Active Directory-
based networks. The Active Directory Agent (also called
"AD Agent") collects information from several sources simul-
taneously and populates a single session table that identi-
fies the current user for each active workstation on the
network. This session table is forwarded to the Web Filter so
the end user is given the appropriate filtering profile.
The AD Agent can be installed on any Windows 2000 or
2003 server on the domain, and does not have to be
installed on a domain controller.
In large networks, multiple AD Agent hosts can cooperate
as a "team" to deal with issues of security partitioning,
network bandwidth, and administrative responsibility bound-
aries.

Product feature overview

• Provides Single Sign-On (SSO) transparent authentica-
• Supports Mixed or Native Windows environments
• Supports LDAP and LDAPS protocols
• Auto-detects domains and domain controllers
• Works with an existing Tier 2/Tier 3 authentication config-
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