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Initial Setup

This guide lists the operations required to set up the 12Port application once it is installed. If you have not yet installed the application on your system, you can do so by following the installation guide.

Administrator Registration

After installing the 12Port application, you can access it via web browser using the URL https://ztnahost:6443/ztna, where ztnahost is the hostname or address of the system where the 12Port application is installed.

When accessing the application for the first time, you will be redirected to the Administrator Registration page. Enter a username and password to create the Administrator account.

Add Asset Tenant Form

Creating an Asset Tenant

As the 12Port application natively supports multitenancy, all network management operations are performed within the scope of an asset tenant which maintains independent data and configuration settings for each individual network. However, the application is initialized with only the base tenant upon installation. The base tenant is strictly used to manage other tenants, and network assets cannot be managed from it. After registering the administrator account, you will be prompted to create the first asset tenant so that you can begin adding and managing assets and segmentation policies.

Add Asset Tenant Form

Depending on your planned usage, there are several choices to consider on this screen:

  • Tenant Update Type: If you are using a single server deployment, choose "Create Standalone."

  • Name: Enter a descriptive name for the asset tenant. This name will become part of the URL used to access the tenant.

  • Issuer: Issuer, which is usually a tenant URL, identifies a tenant for external parties such as SSO identity providers, browsers, scripts, or applications integrating with this tenant using REST API calls. Tokens and exchange documents that the tenant signs are generated with this unique identifier. When using the default ${dynamic} value, the tenant generates the issuer value based on the URL a client accesses the tenant during the request to use the issuer. The downside of using dynamic issuer generation is that all tokens and exchange documents generated with a different issuer will be invalid when the tenant is accessed using a different URL.

  • Language: Select the tenant’s default language.

  • Database: If you would like to use the embedded database included with the application, choose "Embedded." The embedded database is suitable for trials and small scale production deployments. If you would instead like to use an existing standalone database, choose the DBMS variant, and enter the URL and credentials for access.

Once all fields are completed, click the Save button to add the asset tenant. You will be automatically navigated to this new tenant upon creation.

Asset Tenant Navigation

You can navigate between tenants by using the URL https://ztnahost:6443/ztna/base for the base tenant or the URL https://ztnahost:6443/ztna/mytenant for the new asset tenant, where mytenant is the name of the new tenant.