Machine auth on SSID

TheMightyGaur
Conversationalist

Machine auth on SSID

Looking to only allow domain joined machines on a SSID.  Was looking at radius auth but that seems to only check mac address or user accounts despite this statement in the config doc:

"Type or find the Domain Users group. This group should be located in the same domain as your RADIUS server.
Note: If RADIUS is being used for Machine Authentication, find the Domain Computers group instead." 

 

Can this be done using a computer group? If not, what is the best option to verify the computer and minimize complexity to the users?  we have about 1500 devices, so creating a mac account for each machine would be a bit cumbersome to maintain.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Using NPS for RADIUS.

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GreenMan
Meraki Employee
Meraki Employee

Using X.509 certs (either user or machine) for Enterprise-802.1x is supported by Meraki APs using NPS as RADIUS    https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Encryption_and_Authentication/RADIUS%3A_WPA2-Enterprise_With_EAP...

GIdenJoe
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

You need your NPS access rule to match a specific AD group. In this case that would be the domain computers group.  And only if that condition is met you can send the access-accept.

Usually when you create a network policy on NPS you need to put in following conditions:
nas-port-type = 802.11 wireless
called station id contiains SSIDname
domain computer = the machine group containing your windows machines.

And make sure this rule is above the default rules.

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

You will also need to create a group policy to configure your macihnes to only perform machine auth.

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