How To: Debug and Verify Adaptive Authentication's Threat Service

Version Affected: 9.0.2 and later

 

Overview

This article explains how to debug and verify Adaptive Authentication's threat service by spoofing a client IP address for testing purposes, using the realm's IP address debug mode.

Enable and Use IP Address Debug Mode

1. Decrypt the web.config for the realm.
2. Open the web.config in a text editor and add the following add key values between the appSettings tags, then save:

<appSettings>
    <add key="EndUserIPDebug" value="True" />
    <add key="AEDebug" value="true" />
    ...
</appSettings>

3. To perform the test, append the query string ?DebugIP= together with the IP address you want to spoof, for example:

https://idp.fqdn.com/SecureAuth#/?DebugIP=11.22.33.44

4. Remove the add key values from the web.config after testing, to avoid leaving this debug capability enabled.

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