topic ISE 2.2 Admin Portal & Chrome 69+: How to get Flash working? in Network Access Control

ISE 2.2 Admin Portal & Chrome 69+: How to get Flash working?

scottsanderstof — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:39:37 GMT

For my team and I, Google Chrome is clearly the browser that works best with Cisco ISE 2.2+; however, Google got rid of the Flash site whitelist feature in Chrome 69. In this new version, you're expected to enable Flash every time you visit a page that uses it.

What I'm finding is that the ISE Admin Portal doesn't seem to trigger anything in Chrome 69 that offers me the opportunity to enable Flash. Instead, it just thinks I'm using a Flash-less browser. As such, portions of the ISE Admin Portal that rely on Flash don't work.

I'd use another browser, but none of the other ones seem to work well with ISE. Firefox freezes. IE11 works for the Flash parts, but overall it works poorly with ISE.

Is there some way to get ISE Admin Portal fully working, including the Flash components, with Google Chrome 69+?

Version: ISE 2.2 Patch 7

Re: ISE 2.2 Admin Portal & Chrome 69+: How to get Flash working?

Damien Miller — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:46:03 GMT

This doesn't help immediately help you, but I can say v2.4's GUI works great with Chrome v69.

Something like this extension might help, worth trying anyways since it could be a quick fix.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enable-flash/ffhmgplhgjlmapgmbaheefnhommfgckd

Re: ISE 2.2 Admin Portal & Chrome 69+: How to get Flash working?

Cory Peterson — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:51:51 GMT

Also, be sure you have Adblock or any other similar addon disabled, there are parts or ISE that will not work when it is enabled.

Re: ISE 2.2 Admin Portal & Chrome 69+: How to get Flash working?

scottsanderstof — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:27:00 GMT

I don't have any extensions or other plugins installed in Chrome on my computer, but thanks for the tip.

Re: ISE 2.2 Admin Portal & Chrome 69+: How to get Flash working?

scottsanderstof — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:54:46 GMT

After much searching, I finally figured it out thanks to help from this site. I'll go ahead and post the solution here in case someone else needs this.

Go to the ISE Admin Portal.
Click the lock icon that indicates a secure site connection in the address bar.
Under the "Connection is sucure" message, you should see Flash with a drop-down box to the right that says Ask (default). Press the drop-down and select Allow.
Click outside of the white box.
Chrome will display a notice stating that you have to reload the page to update the site settings. Press Reload.

After doing these steps, Flash will work inside the ISE Admin Portal in Chrome 69; however, this procedure has to be repeated each and every Chrome browser session where you want to use Flash in the ISE Admin Portal.