Cisco ISE Installation

Active Directory Integration

Lab Guide
Version 1.0

Released 21-Feb-2023

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Resources
Hypervisor VMware ESXI 6.5 (Workstation is fine)

Simulator EVE-NG Community version (pnetlab is fine)

Virtual images ise-2.7

windows server 2016
cisco IOL L2
cisco C1900
Juniper vSRX

Topology

Cisco ISE 10.200.1.101

AD/DNS/NTP 10.200.1.102

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 I. Setup AD/DNS/NTP Server on Windows server 2016/2019
In order to achieve Cisco ISE and Active Directory Integration, let’s establish the AD/DNS/NTP.

Setting up server IP Address

Installing DNS and Active Directory Services

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Create your domain

Confirm the Active Directory and DNS Services are installed properly.

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Setting Windows Server as NTP server

Restart NTP services.

Services: Windows Time

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II. Setup Cisco ISE

Power On and Enter "setup" to start the installation process.

Enter the basic parameters

Hostname: ise01
IP address: 10.200.1.101
IP netmask: 255.255.255.0
Default GW: 10.200.1.254
DNS domain: itbase.local
Nameserver: 10.200.1.102
NTP server: 10.200.1.102
Enter your admin password.
Wait for around 15 minutes to complete the setup

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Access ISE via Web Browser
https://10.200.1.101

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III. Integrate Cisco ISE with Active Directory

Add AD domain

Administration > External Identity Sources > Active Directory > Add

Submit Joined domain (which is created above)

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Enter AD Domain Admin credential to join ISE to Domain.

Confirm successfully status

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