Groups, Connection Profiles, and Defaults

A great question that comes up quite a bit is this: Why do we have all these group connection profiles and default groups that seem to be interrelated? The answer is for flexibility. The connection profiles are responsible for the initial connection of the user (the end users only see these as groups, and they do not know all the details behind the scene), and two different connection profiles with two different URLs could use two different authentication methods. After you have authenticated users, you know who they are, and then you can associate group attributes with users’ group memberships. In the CCNP Security curriculum, you have a greater opportunity to delve deeper into the workings of these ...

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