Procedure

Procedure


Step 1

In the left pane, click Secure Connections > Remote Access VPN > ASA & FDM.

Step 2

Click the blue plus button to create a new RA VPN configuration.

Step 3

Enter a name for the Remote Access VPN configuration.

Step 4

Click the blue plus button to add FDM-managed devices to the configuration. You can add the device details and configure network traffic-related permissions that are associated with the device.

  1. Provide the following device details:

    • Device: Select an FDM-managed device that you want to add and click Select.

      Important

      You are not allowed to add ASA and FDM-managed device in the same Remote Access VPN Configuration.

    • Certificate of Device Identity: Select the internal certificate used for establishing the identity of the device. This establishes the device identity for AnyConnect clients when they make a connection to the device. Clients must accept this certificate to complete a secure VPN connection. If you do not already have a certificate, click Create New Internal Certificate in the drop-down list. See Generating Self-Signed Internal and Internal CA Certificates.

    • Outside Interface: The interface to which users connect when making the remote access VPN connection. Although this is normally the outside (internet-facing) interface, choose whichever interface is between the device and the end-users you are supporting with this connection profile. To create a new subinterface, see Configure Firepower VLAN Subinterfaces and 802.1Q Trunking.

    • Fully Qualified Domain Name or IP for the Outside Interface: The name of the interface, for example, ravpn.example.com or the IP address must be provided. If you specify a name, the system can create a client profile for you. Note: You are responsible for ensuring that the DNS servers used in the VPN and by clients can resolve this name to the outside interface's IP address. Add the FQDN to the relevant DNS servers.

  2. Click Continue to configure the traffic permissions.

    • Bypass Access Control policy for decrypted traffic (sysopt permit-vpn): Decrypted traffic is subjected to Access Control Policy inspection by default. Enabling this option bypasses the decrypted traffic option bypasses the access control policy inspection, but the VPN Filter ACL and the authorization ACL downloaded from the AAA server are still applied to VPN traffic. Note that if you select this option, the system configures the sysopt connection permit-vpn command, which is a global setting. This will also impact the behavior of site-to-site VPN connections. If you do not select this option, it might be possible for external users to spoof IP addresses in your remote access VPN address pool, and thus gain access to your network. This can happen because you will need to create access control rules that allow your address pool to have access to internal resources. If you use access control rules, consider using user specifications to control access, rather than source IP address alone. The downside of selecting this option is that the VPN traffic will not be inspected, which means that intrusion and file protection, URL filtering, or other advanced features will not be applied to the traffic. This also means that no connection events will be generated for the traffic, and thus statistical dashboards will not reflect VPN connections.

    • NAT Exempt: Enable NAT Exempt to exempt traffic to and from the remote access VPN endpoints from NAT translation. If you do not exempt VPN traffic from NAT, ensure that the existing NAT rules for the outside and inside interfaces do not apply to the RA VPN pool of addresses. NAT exempt rules are manual static identity NAT rules for a given source/destination interface and network combination, but they are not reflected in the NAT policy, they are hidden. If you enable NAT Exempt, you must also configure the following.

      • Inside Interfaces: Select the interfaces for the internal networks remote users will be accessing. NAT rules are created for these interfaces.

      • Inside Networks: Select the network objects that represent internal networks remote users will be accessing. The networks list must contain the same IP types as the address pools you are supporting.

Step 5

Click OK.

  • If you have onboarded an firewall device manager Version 6.4.0 device, the AnyConnect Packages Detected shows the AnyConnect packages available in the device.

  • If you have onboarded an firewall device manager Version 6.5.0 or later device, you must add the AnyConnect packages from the server where the AnyConnect packages are pre-uploaded. See Upload AnyConnect Software Packages to an FDM-Managed Device Running Version 6.5.0 for instructions.

Step 6

Click OK. The device is added to the configuration.


What to do next

Note

Select a configuration and under Actions, click the appropriate action:

  • Group Policies to add or remove group policies.

  • Remove to delete the selected RA VPN configuration.