topic Re: Authenticate Synthetic with AD user in Synthetic Monitoring

Authenticate Synthetic with AD user

Vakho — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:18:21 GMT

Hello,
Is there any way to use synthetic with a pre-authentication method for Active Directory with username/password and Domain?
My scenario is next:
All the applications are accessible with Active Directory user/pass within an internal network. So I want to install Environmental ActiveGate on the machine which will have access to the AD and will create a username and password to access the domain. Thus, will it work for synthetic monitoring to access the web with an already pre-authorized user/pass to access the application?
Is there any guide for this scenario?

Thanks

Re: Authenticate Synthetic with AD user

Islam_Zedan — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:15:51 GMT

Hello,

You can record the scenario with the user configured on the machine and it will be stored in credential vault. also please check the below authentication document for synthetic monitors.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/synthetic-authentication

Thanks,

Islam

Re: Authenticate Synthetic with AD user

Vakho — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:43:31 GMT

Hello islam_zidan,
From the document I see that you can use the authentication method via WebForm which doesn't work for me and HTTP monitoring with auth which is also not the exact scenario which I'm looking for.
But, if I understand you right, I can create a virtual machine (Windows) with access to Active Directory and install on it Active Gate for Synthetic and it will access the applications, right?

Thanks

Re: Authenticate Synthetic with AD user

AntonioSousa — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:00:47 GMT

@Vakho,

Check out the NTLM part in the link @Islam_Zedan provided.

Re: Authenticate Synthetic with AD user

Islam_Zedan — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:31:29 GMT

Yes correct. you can configure a windows machine as a private location and run the scenario from it.

Re: Authenticate Synthetic with AD user

Vakho — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:04:54 GMT

Awesome, thank you @Islam_Zedan