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title: "Managing Access Authentication"
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<span style="color: #000000">Infoblox Platform provides an access authentication service that you use to authenticate users through a captive portal using third-party IdP (Identity Provider) federation and creating security policies based on user groups. The access authentication feature allows you to integrate third-party IdP federations, using LDAP, SAML or OpenID Connect, and create authentication profiles that you associate with hosts. You can also synchronize user groups from your chosen IdPs, so you can build security policies based on user groups from Microsoft Azure AD, Okta, and OpenAM.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">Before you configure access authentication, ensure that you understand the prerequisites for configuring applications in the IdPs and other considerations. For information, see </span>[*<span style="color: #000000">Prerequisites for Configuring Access Authentication</span>*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35430215)<span style="color: #000000">.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">When you are ready to configure access authentication, ensure that you follow all the steps described in </span>[*<span style="color: #000000">Setting Up Access Authentication</span>*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35463193)<span style="color: #000000">.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">The </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Configure</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> > </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Administration</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> > </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Access Authentication</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> page displays the following information for the authentication profiles you have configured:</span>

- **<span style="color: #000000">NAME</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: The name of the authentication profile.</span>
- **<span style="color: #000000">DESCRIPTION</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: The description of the authentication profile.</span>
- **<span style="color: #000000">TYPE</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: The authentication protocol for the profile.</span>
- **<span style="color: #000000">AVAILABILITY</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: Indicates whether the profile is </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Enabled</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> or </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Disabled</span>**<span style="color: #000000">. An enabled profile is available for user authentication and user group synchronization. To enable authentication, toggle the MS AD Collector on the Host Editor page to the enabled position. At least one host is required in order to perform MS AD User Groups Collection. </span>It is possible to sign out after having signing in prior to when the TTL expires. <span style="color: #000000">When navigating to the captive portal domain it will show the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Log Out</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> button.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">You can also perform the following in this </span><span style="color: #000000"> tab:</span>

- <span style="color: #000000">S</span><span style="color: #000000">elect the columns you want to display or use the arrow keys to reorder the columns.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Click  </span><span style="color: #000000">the Edit menu </span><span style="color: #000000">> </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Edit</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> to modify the selected authentication profile. You can also choose the respective authentication profile and click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Edit</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Click </span><span style="color: #000000">the Edit menu</span><span style="color: #000000"> > </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Remove</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> to delete the selected authentication profile. You can also choose the respective authentication profile and click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Remove</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Select an authentication profile to view additional details in the right panel. You can collapse the right panel by clicking</span><span style="color: #000000"> the information icon on the upper right corner</span><span style="color: #000000">. </span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Enter the value that you want to search in the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Search</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> text box. The </span><span style="color: #202124">Infoblox</span><span style="color: #000000"> Portal displays the list of records that match the keyword in the text box.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">For more information about access authentication, see the following:</span>

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