FortiNAC

Guest and Contractor Management

Version 8.2

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Lesson Overview

Guest and Contractor Management

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Guest and Contractor Management
Objectives
• Understanding guest and contractor administration
 Basic Concepts of Guest Manager
• An Administrator
o Creates templates for guests and contractors
o Creates administrative user profiles
o Creates administrative users, each assigned a profile
o Enforces isolation (Locks down the network)

Guest or
Contractor
Templates

Administrative
Administrator Profiles

Administrative
User (Sponsor)

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Basic Concepts of Guest Manager
• An administrative user (Sponsor) creates new guest or contractor accounts,
restricted to the templates assigned by the administrator

Guest or
Using Contractor Creates
Templates

Administrative Guests or contractor

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Basic Concepts of Guest Manager
• Two additional user types

• Guest
Account created for Guests – Typically short term

• Contractor
Account created for Contractors – Typically long term

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Basic Concepts of Guest Manager
• There are five ways to create guest and contractor accounts
o Individual
• Manually created by the sponsor
o Bulk
• File imported by the sponsor
o Conference
• Generates “N” number of Guest/Contractor accounts governed by the template created by the
administrator
o Self Registered Guest
• Account created by guest and approved by sponsor or admin
o Kiosk Mode
• Self-Serve workstation (usually placed in a public area)

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Guest/Contractor Templates
• Created by the administrator to define different types of guests or contractors

Users

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Guest/Contractor Templates
• Used to define any number of guest or contractor ‘types’
• Define:
o Role
o Security & Access Value
o Account requirements or restrictions
• Password Length
• Allowed login times
• Data fields
o URL for AUP

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Guest/Contractor Templates
• Required information that will be supplied by the guest or contractor during
registration

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Administrative User Profiles
• Created by the administrator
• Used to define rights and restrictions of administrative users

Users

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Administrative User Profiles
• Administrative interface inactivity timeout
• Login Availability

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Admin Profiles for Guest Management

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Creating Guest/Contractor Accounts
• Administrators and sponsors have the ability to create guest and contractor
accounts
• Three types of accounts
o Single Account
o Bulk Accounts
o Conference

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Creating Guest/Contractor Accounts
• Bulk Accounts
o Account creation based on manually entries or CSV import

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Creating Guest/Contractor Accounts
• Conference
o Automatic generation of accounts

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Managing Guest/Contractor Accounts
• Management of guest and contractor accounts allows:
o Adding of accounts Users

o Viewing existing accounts

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Guest Self Registration
• Guests can request and account from the Captive Portal page
o A Guest/Contractor template is assigned to the page
• Accounts can be:
o Approved or Denied by a sponsor
o Automatically Approved

Approve or Deny

Guest or
Contractor
Templates

Sponsor

Approved

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Guest Self Registration Configuration
System

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Guest Self Registration Configuration

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Guest Self Registration Configuration

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