Sophos Firewall: Best practice for clientless user and fetch the usage report

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Overview

The purpose of this article is to explain how to create a clientless user and the best practices for doing so, as well as how you can access the clientless user's web/application report.

Step 1: MAC binding in DHCP server

                CONFIGURE > Network > DHCP > Add > Static IP MAC mapping
            

Step 2: Creating Clientless user

                 CONFIGURE > Authentication > Clientless users
                   
          

Step 3: IP host/IP host group

           SYSTEM > Hosts and services > IP host > Add
                                    

#IP host group

  

Step 4: Firewall rule

                        PROTECT > Rules and policies > Firewall rules > Add
                  
            
 

       

Step 5: Sophos Central Configuration for reporting

                 SYSTEM > Sophos Central       
                  

Step 6: Usage – Web/Bandwidth

Login to central.sophos.com/cloud.sophos.com > Firewall Management > Report Generator]                 

Note - We'll filter out the clientless user, for the reference see the screenshots below:

                 
   

I hope you have found this article helpful in understanding and achieving your requirement.

Updated Disclaimer
[edited by: Erick Jan at 9:49 AM (GMT -7) on 17 Apr 2023]