Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S160 Guía Del Usuario

 shows a policies table with two user defined Identity groups. The first Identity group applies 

to all subnets, requires authentication, and specifies RealmA for authentication. The second Identity 
group applies to all subnets, requires authentication, and specifies RealmB for authentication. Neither 
Identity group has any advanced option configured. The global Identity group applies to all subnets, 
requires authentication, and specifies the All Realms sequence for authentication.

In this scenario, when a client sends a request for a URL, the Web Proxy evaluates the first Identity group 
and determines that the Identity group applies to all subnets and has no advanced options configured. It 
determines that the Identity group requires authentication and that the only realm specified in the 
Identity group is RealmA. Therefore, in order for a client on any subnet to pass authentication, it must 
exist in RealmA.

When a client that exists in RealmA sends a request for a URL, the client passes authentication and the 
Web Proxy assigns the first Identity group to the transaction. When a client that does not exist in RealmA 
sends a request for a URL, the client fails authentication and the Web Proxy terminates the request.

Note that when a client in RealmB sends a request for a URL, the Web Proxy does not match the client 
request with the second Identity group. This is because a previous Identity group already applies to the 
same subnets (and the exact same advanced options, which in this example is none) in the second Identity 
group and it requires authentication, but from RealmA instead. Clients in RealmB do not “fall through” 
to the second Identity group.

If you want users in RealmB to have different Access, Decryption, and Routing Policy settings applied 
to them than users in RealmA, perform the following steps:

Create an authentication sequence that contains both RealmA and RealmB. You can choose the order of 
the realms in the sequence depending on your business needs.

Create one Identity group and configure it for whichever subnets on which users in RealmA and RealmB 
might exist. In this example, you would configure the Identity group for all subnets. 

Configure the Identity group to use the sequence you defined in step 

Create two user defined policy groups of the same type, such as Access Policies, and configure them 
both to use the Identity group with the authentication sequence you defined in step 

Configure the first policy group to only apply to users in one realm, such as RealmA. You can do this by 
specifying a particular realm in the sequence, or by using authentication groups, or entering specific 
usernames.

Configure the second policy group to only apply to users in the other realm, such as RealmB. You can 
do this by specifying a particular realm in the sequence, or by using authentication groups, or entering 
specific usernames.

1

All

Yes

RealmA

none

2

All

Yes

RealmB

none

Global Identity 
policy

All

Yes

All Realms

N/A (none by default)