One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions 8.0 LTS - Administration Guide

Prerequisites

• You have created a user for which you want to assign the search privilege. For more information, see Creating local users in One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS).

• You have created a usergroup. For more information, see Managing local user groups.

To assign users to access sessions only for connections for which they are granted permission

1. Navigate to Users & Access Control > Appliance Access.

   Figure 262: Users & Access Control > Appliance Access — Configuring search privileges

   

2. Assign the Search privilege to your usergroup as described in Assigning privileges to user groups for the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) web interface.

3. Deselect the Access all sessions privilege so that users can access sessions only for connections for which they are granted permission.

4. To grant permission to a specific connection, navigate to the Connections page of the traffic (for example to Traffic Controls > SSH > Connections), and select the connection policy to modify.

5. Scroll down to the Access Control section, and click .

6. Enter the name of the usergroup whose members are permitted to access the Search interface into the Authorizer Group field. This group must exist on the Users & Access Control > Local User Groups page.

   Caution: Usernames, the names of user lists, and the names of usergroups are case sensitive.

7. Set the permissions of the usergroup.

   • If the usergroup can authorize (that is, enable) and audit (that is, monitor in real-time and download the audit trails) the sessions, select Permission > Follow&Authorize.

   • If the usergroup can only audit the sessions but cannot authorize, select Permission > Follow.

   NOTE: If the Client user is > Member of field is set, the auditor can only monitor the sessions of the specified usergroup. However, if Client user is > Member of field is set, the Auditor cannot access the Sessions page. To avoid this problem, add another Access Control rule for the Authorizer Group without setting the Client user isfield.

   The admin user of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) can audit and authorize every connection.

To specify time ranges

1. To select the start date of your search, click Pick a date.

   Alternatively, use the (shortcuts) button to restrict the search to one of the preset time ranges. For example, to investigate an incident that occurred sometime in the last hour, you can select Today, but a better option is Last 60 minutes.

   Figure 264: Audit > Sessions — Pick a date

   

2. From the calendar, select the start date as required.

   NOTE: The date refers to the timezone configured on SPS.

3. For exact time ranges, specify to search by the hour and minute.

   Figure 265: Audit > Sessions — Specify hour and minute

   

4. To select the end date of your search, click Pick a date and select a date as required.

   If you specify only the start date, the end date is set to the current time.

5. Optional: To clear the start and end date, click (shortcuts) > All time.

6. Optional: You can use the timeline for a quick time range selection and visual representation of sessions in the selected interval.

   1. Click the icon.

      Figure 266: Audit > Sessions — Using the timeline

      

      The bars display the number of results in the selected interval.

      The active sessions columns indicate all the sessions, which were active in the selected interval. The sessions started columns indicate all the sessions started during the selected interval. For example, if the selected interval is today between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM, then a session started at 7:00 AM but lasting after 8:00 AM is displayed in the active sessions column. A session started at 8:30 AM is displayed in the sessions started column. Since the session was active during the selected time interval, the session started at 8:30 AM is also displayed in the active sessions column.

      To disable the active sessions and view only the started sessions in the timeline, click . To disable the started sessions and view only the active sessions in the timeline, click .

      Hovering the mouse above a bar displays the number of entries and the start and end date of the period that the bar represents.

      Trend analysis allows you to use the timeline to find changes over time. For example, to find the time range where terminated connections had a significant peak compared to other days, from the Show trend for drop-down menu, select Verdict. Note that you can only view trend analysis for Active, Analytics Score, Client name, Protocol, Server hostname, Server port, Server username, Username and Verdict. All the other selections are grayed out.

      The colors of the bars in the timeline allow you to quickly find the time range with a higher number of terminated sessions.

      Optional: To clear the trend analysis view, from the Show trend for drop-down menu, select X.

      Figure 267: Audit > Sessions — Using the timeline - trend analysis

      

   2. To select a range, drag the mouse pointer across the timeline or use Shift+Click and select multiple bars.