My 5th grade daughter has a Chromebook for
school. She loves it and it allows her access to school applications and
educational tools where she can complete her assignments and check her grades.
But if 5th grade is a tiny dot in your rear-view and you’re looking
to deploy Chromebooks in the enterprise, BIG-IP
v12 can secure Chrome device access to enterprise networks and applications
using SSL VPN technologies, encrypting those connections to corporate
applications. With network access, users can run applications such as RDP, SSH,
Citrix, VMware View, and other enterprise applications on their Chrome OS
devices.
From an employee’s perspective, it is very easy to get this
configured. Log on to a Chromebook, open Chrome Web Store, search for ‘F5
Access’ and press the +ADD TO CHROME button. Add app when the dialogue box
pops and F5 Access will appear in your ‘All Apps’ window.
Next, when launched, you’ll need to accept the license
agreement and then add a server from the Configuration tab:
Next, give it a unique name, enter the BIG-IP APM server URL
and optionally add your username and password. Your password will not be cached
unless that’s allowed by the APM Access Policy. You can also select a client
certificate if required. Once configured, it’ll appear in the list. You can
also have multiple server configurations if needed:
To connect, click the bottom tray bar and select the tile
that says, ‘VPN Disconnected.’
And select the server configured when setting up the app.
Depending on the configuration, you’ll either get the native login window or
the WebTop version:
Once connected,
there won’t be any indication in the tray but if you click it, you’ll see the
connection status in the same VPN area as above and it’ll show ‘connected’
within the F5 Access app:
As you can see in
the above image, you can also check Statistics and Diagnostics if those are of
interest. To end the
connection, click the try again, select the VPN tile and click Disconnect:
For
administrators, it’s as simple as adding a ‘ChromeOS’ branch off the ClientOS
VPE action:
Then add a
Connectivity Profile to BIG-IP:
In addition to
generic session variables, client session variables are also available. Check
out the release notes and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager and F5 Access for Chrome
OS v1.0.0 manual for more
info.
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