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title: Configuring Global Properties
description: To configure Check Point VPN for PingID multi-factor authentication (MFA), you must configure Global Properties.
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revdate: January 27, 2024
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# Configuring Global Properties

To configure Check Point VPN for PingID multi-factor authentication (MFA), you must configure Global Properties.

## Steps

1. From the Windows **Start** menu, open the **Checkpoint SmartDashboard**.

2. Enter your username and password and click **Login**.

3. In the Check Point SmartDashboard, in the **Checkpoint** menu bar, click the **Menu** icon (![A screen capture of the Menu icon in the Check Point SmartDashboard.](_images/fzv1564020997545.jpg) ). Go to **Policy → Global Properties**.

4. Click **Smart Dashboard Customization**.

5. Click **Configure**.

6. Open the configuration tree, and go to **FireWall-1 → Authentication → RADIUS**. ![A screen capture of the RADIUS settings in the Checkpoint SmartDashboard.](_images/lii1564020998042.jpg)

7. Configure the following settings:

   * **radius\_user\_timeout**: 600

   * **radius\_retrant\_num**: 2

   * **radius\_send\_frames**: Select the check box.

   * **radius\_connection\_timeout**: 30

   * **radius\_retrant\_timeout**: 60

   * **radius\_ignore**: 0

8. Click **OK**.