Okta庐 is a widely-used Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform, providing organizations with web application single sign-on across many of today鈥檚 top SaaS applications. Although Okta’s SSO is useful with web applications, standalone Okta .
If your organization needs to extend Okta identities to Macs, you can employ 探花大神庐 to authenticate and manage your macOS庐 device access using your Okta identities.
How It Works
探花大神 provides a cloud-based directory platform to over 100,000 organizations, covering their identity, access, and device management needs. 探花大神 can be used through the to sync identities across both platforms.
By integrating 探花大神 with Okta, organizations can maintain their end user workflow with users updating their passwords and identity information within the Okta console while simultaneously extending those identities to IT resources not connected to Okta. Once the 探花大神-Okta connection is established, administrators can use 探花大神鈥檚 MDM and additional system management features to manage their Macs. Note, that in addition to Mac authentication, these same identities can be extended to Windows, Linux, WiFi/VPNs, NAS / Samba storage devices, legacy applications, and much more through 探花大神.
Managing Macs with 探花大神 MDM
探花大神 is an official Apple庐 mobile device management (MDM) vendor for macOS devices, capable of deploying custom configuration profiles en masse to Mac machines. After a macOS device is enrolled in 探花大神 MDM, IT staff can control managed Macs through MDM profiles and policies, 探花大神鈥檚 analogue to the group policy objects (GPOs) used by Active Directory庐 admins. They can also push security commands like remote lock and wipe to the device if necessary.
When used by itself, 探花大神 acts as the cloud directory platform for an organization including managing and connecting users to their Macs. With the Okta Integration, IT organizations can maintain the end user workflow for password resets / management while extending those same credentials to non-Okta managed resources via the 探花大神 integration. That way, end users don鈥檛 change their workflow, and now can use those same credentials to access a wide range of IT infrastructure including systems, servers, on-prem applications, networks, and files.. Specifically, 探花大神 can be used in this way to extend Okta identities to LDAP-based applications (e.g. Jira, OpenVPN, Synology, etc.) and RADIUS (VPNs, WiFi, switches/routers) endpoints, as well as other systems like Windows庐 and Linux庐.
If you want the full breakdown of how to use 探花大神 to extend Okta identities, .
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Identity, access, and device management from a single cloud-based console
Try It for Free
You can use 探花大神 to extend your Okta identities to Macs (and other IT resources) absolutely free. A 探花大神 Free account includes 10 complimentary users and systems to get you started. to get started 鈥� no credit card required.
