Introduction

This document provides detailed information about the migration steps from SBR to Pulse Policy Secure (PPS). The document captures the manual migration approach for the 802.1X/RADIUS, MAC Address, authentication and TACACS+ use cases. Export the configurations from SBR and then import them into PPS. The de fault configurations are created for smooth migration.

The migration procedure starts with comparing the configuration settings from SBR and then configuring on PPS. Ensure that you understand the configuration flow of Pulse Policy Secure and verify them against the access policies of SBR.

PPS supports role-based access control. The level of access to the network is determined based on the user roles and various other attributes. For example, an individual with the engineer role in an organization might be allowed access to the certain company's resources, but blocked access to employee records.

However, SBR is profile-based access control. The access is determined based on the profiles associated with Users or RADIUS clients or Location groups. The access is determined based on the check properties of the request against the configured checklist of attributes.

Ensure that you configure the PPS based on the configuration flow for easy migration. The equivalent SBR terminologies for configuration is documented in RADIUS Configuration Migration, MAC Address Authentication Migration sections. Plan your migration carefully to ensure smooth migration and to decrease any risk of migration failure.

Supported Migration Use cases

You can migrate all the RADIUS configurations such as Location groups, RADIUS Clients and Profiles and MAC addresses configurations from SBR to PPS.