Cisco ISE : Installing External CA Signed Certificate | STEP BY STEP
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Install External Certificate Authority (CA) on Cisco ISE | CSR in ISE | Windows 2012 R2
Today we are gonna have a look at Installing External CA's Signed Certificate on Cisco ISE
Essentially, the goal of this Lab is to see how we get rid of the certificate issues while accessing or communicating with Cisco ISE using an external Certificate Authority Server for certificate signing , which will be Windows 2012 in our case.
The end result will be that you won't be getting HTTPS errors or essentially “Certificate errors” while accessing Cisco ISE via the GUI & alongside that, we can use the same certificate for Authentication purposes for any mechanism that uses TLS.
Why Certificate or HTTPS Errors occur?
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The most common one is that your device like windows & android have literally trust issues
How this works is that, All of the devices have a Trusted Root certificate store in which a bunch of trusted CA’s of the world exist. Any certificate presented to the device that has their stamp of approval on it, will essentially pass the untrusted root CA error which is the most common for HTTPS or Certificate errors.
But there are many more reasons you might get an HTTPS or certificate error, for example.
InValid VA error (which we just discussed)
Common name invalid (Caused by mismatch in domain names & common names)
Weak Signature error ( caused by weak algorithms i.e SHA1 used instead of SHA2)
Expired Certificate error, that’s kind a self explaining
So Our main focus in the lab will be on the Root Certificate issue alongside the common name problem that may occur.
Now Basically, three key players are present in the lab, namely, Windows 10 Machine acting as the client, The Cisco ISE server itself & the WIndows Server 2012 acting as the Certificate Authority Server.
Neither the ISE Nor the Windows Machine know about this CA server yet, so they don’t trust it.
For the action items of this lab, we are going to download & install the CA’s certificate into the Trusted Certificate Authority store of the windows 10 Machine, so that from here on out, it trusts any certificate that has this CA’s approval or sign on it.
Next up just like the Windows machine, ISE too has a Trusted Certificate Authority Store called “Trusted Certificates” & before we move on to Signing ISE’s certificate from it, it needs to be present there as a trusted CA entity. So we will be installing the same Certificate on ISE as well.
Lastly CIsco ISE will generate a CSR or a Certificate Signing Request & get it signed from the CA & Finally we will move on to the installation of that certificate stamped by the CA that both the Windows & ISE trust.
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Such comments are the motivation I seek brother :) that is a donation for me doctornetworks.net/all-courses/
Again it's free & I would love some honest feedback on it.
This was one of the all-time great teaching videos pertaining ISE Thanks, good work!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Juggernaut! Glad you liked it. Love the name by the way "Juggernaut" 🙂
Very good video. Looking forward to you continuing the series!
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Thanks Jimmy 😊
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Thank you so much for such a great video I really appreciate your effort
Welcome brother. Hope so one day I'll start remaking such material
Great explanations and well demo! Love to see more such videos.
Thank you for the support! More are coming up soon!
Great video! Thanks.
I'm glad it helped
Awesome video. What if you have a 2 node PRI and SEC PAN deployment, do you add both FQDNs of PRI and SEC nodes in the SAN fields in the event of a failover. A video on a installing certs on a 2 node deployment would be great!
Really sorry I missed your comment. Each node will generate a separate CsR for themselves, both will have their respective SAN fields different.
@@doctor.networks while uploading the new cert, should we do on the Sec node first or the Pri node
Man great video, congratulations!!!! Help a lot
Thank you man , great video 👍
Thanks Gurban. I am glad it helped.
Hello Bro. Ahmed, I just purchase your course to support your work, even though I am an eve-ng master already I decided to support our project.
Hi Benedict. Thank you so much for the support bro 🙂, really appreciated & great to hear that you are a master in EVE 🙂 I will take your help in building my master course on eve.
@@doctor.networks Absolutely Bro. Ahmed, I am more than happy to help you with anything related to eve.
@@benedictagyemang3862 Done! 👍 Thanks again
you are very welcome and all the best for your amazing training
@@benedictagyemang3862 Thank you 😊
Awesome! Thank you for the great content.
Glad you liked it Ahmed! We have the same name by the way 😀
@@doctor.networks My honour
Please explain what are the purposes to used CA Certificates under the Certificate Authority field.
Sorry i missed your comment. The purpose is to mainly trust the entity representing the cert. Google.com gives you a cert & your system has to verify it via its CA store.
great video and great presentation
Thank you Kamran for the great words 😊❤️
Thanks. I am still on 29:30 and I saw your securecrt colors. How you have two color settings like blue for Home-RTR and white for commands?
Hi, It's actually via regular expressions & all devices get that color.
Here is how you do it. Navigate to Session Options >> Appearance >> Highlight Keywords & then edit.
Put in the following in the word section one by one & set the color as needed:
[^#]+#
[^>]+>
@@doctor.networks Thanks. I think I tried this before but doesnt work for me. I have some key highlight already set but will try again. What is your font and size? I
@@doctor.networks Now it works :)
Great video but I was wondering if you had instructions of adding Go Daddy wildcard cert into ISE? We are a child domain and can't use a local CA server.
Thank You for your comment. Adding a wild card certificate is much easier, you just have to import it & check the "Allow Wildcard" checkmark.In that case you wont need to generate a csr or any thing, you just import
Hello! I need your help. I have installed cert and it's ok with logging on ISE. But in Guest portal the problem is still exist. Is anything else I should config?
You mean to say when guests connect when they get HTTPS error? or your own system?
@@doctor.networks Yes, when guests connect to the ssid and then to the portal for registration. When portal opens first , there is a issue : "The network you are trying to join has security issuses" . The guest phone is android
@@orkhanhajizada8294 That is because tge guests don't trust the Root CA & they never will until you install the cert on their device. The best way is to get the portal certificate signed by a cloud CA like verisign/godady etc. That is the only way. Just be careful, you have to own that domain that you are using first otherwise they wont sign it.
@@doctor.networks I understand. Thank you!
@@doctor.networks Hello again! I fixed cert problem! Thank you again! I have another question. I get this alarm every 15min: "ISE Authentication Inactivity Details : No Authentication" . As I understand it just notify me that there is no authentication. Am I right? Or it means something else seriously is goin on and I should fix it ?
How do I contact you?
Hi Debasish, You contact me on ahmed@doctornetworks.net