Fortinet, Inc.
DEVICE INTEGRATION FOR A NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL SERVER BASED ON DEVICE MAPPINGS AND TESTING VERIFICATION

Abstract:

Systems and methods for facilitating self-service device integration for a network access control (NAC) server are provided. An enforcement engine running on a NAC server initializes modeling of a network device by reading a system object identifier associated with the network device and queries a device information database for the system object identifier to determine whether a mapping for the system object identifier exists in the database. When a match of the system object identifier is not found, the enforcement engine retrieves a list of network devices from the database based on the system object identifier to enable a user to select a potential network device from the list. Furthermore, the enforcement engine, maps implementation details of the potential network device against the system object identifier and stores the mapping as an entry in the database in order to access the network device using implementation details of the potential network device.