Agents Administration - Tests
 

Configuration of AzrADAppRgstrtnTest

This test monitors application registrations on Azure AD, and reports the count and details of applications with invalid or expired secrets/certificates. With this information, administrators can rapidly identify applications with a high security risk quotient, and initiate measures to mitigate those risks. The test also alerts administrators to secrets and certificates that are about to expire, and thus enables administrators take proactive action against impending expiry. Additionally, the test also points administrators to ‘unprotected’ applications - i.e., applications without certificates or secrets. This way, the test urges administrators to employ either or both of the authentication options that Azure AD provides and secure their critical applications.

The default parameters associated with this test are:

  • The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

  • In the HOST text box, specify the HOST for which this test is to be configured.

  • Specify the Directory ID of the Azure AD tenant to which the target subscription belongs in the TENANT ID text box. To know how to determine the Directory ID/Tenant ID Click here.

  • The eG agent communicates with the target Microsoft Azure Subscrption using Java API calls. To collect the required metrics, the eG agent requires an Access token in the form of an Application ID and the client secret value.Specify the Application ID of the created Application in the CLIENT ID TEXTBOX To know how to determine the Application ID Click here. Specify the client secret value in the CLIENT PASSWORD text box. To obtain the client secret value Click here.

  • In some environments, all communication with the Azure cloud be routed through a proxy server. In such environments, you should make sure that the eG agent connects to the cloud via the proxy server and collects metrics. To enable metrics collection via a proxy, specify the IP address of the proxy server and the port at which the server listens against the PROXY HOST and PROXY PORT parameters. By default, these parameters are set to none , indicating that the eG agent is not configured to communicate via a proxy, by default.

  • If the proxy server requires authentication, then, specify a valid proxy user name and password in the PROXY USERNAME and PROXY PASSWORD parameters, respectively. Then, confirm the password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box.

  • By default, EXPIRE DAYS LIMIT parameter is set to 90 days. This means that the test, by default, counts the certificates and secrets that will be expiring any time within the next 90 days, and reports those numbers as the values of the Certificates about to expire and Clients secrets about to expire measures, respectively. Also, these measures will raise an alert only if there is at least one certificate/secret that is set to expire within 90 days from the current day. You can change the value of this measure, if you want to be alerted sooner or later to the impending expiry of certificates or secrets. For instance, if you change the value of this parameter to 15, then the test will wait till there are only 15 days for a secret/certificate to expire to alert you to the expiry. On the other hand, if you change the value of the measure to 120 days, then the alert will be sent sooner - i.e., the test will notify you even if a certificate/secret is 4 months away from expiry.

  • The DD FREQUENCY refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY.

  • To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, eG embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test, by default, for a particular server, choose the On option against DETAILED DIAGNOSIS. To disable the capability, click on the Off option.

    The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled:

    • The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability.

    • Both the bad and normal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.

  • If multiple components of the same component type are awaiting configuration, then an APPLY TO OTHER COMPONENTS button will appear in this page. Clicking on this button will allow you to apply the configuration to all/selected components of that type.

  • Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing the configuration for specific servers, a “*” beside the text box corresponding to the parameter signifies that these values have to be manually configured by the user. The parameter values that require to be configured will typically be prefixed with a “$” or contain a series of “*”. A value of “none” in the parameter value indicates that the corresponding parameter value can be changed if required.