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Now we have a member server in one of the child domains in Forest A, that hosts the Cisco ACS 4.2 software. We use this server to authenticate wireless users in the child domains in Forest A using EAP-TLS.
To cut to the chase, we are having problems extending the Cisco ACS software to cover users in the single domain in Forest B. The root cause is that the Cisco ACS software does not "see" Forest B's domain in its "available domains" list. I get similar behaviour with the "NLTEST /server: /trusted_domains" command. If I run this command targetted at either the Cisco ACS member server or a domain controller within its child domain in Forest A, I do not see Forest B's domain in the list of trusts. However if I run the command targetted to a domain controller in the root domain of Forest A then I get the full list of trusts including the forest trust. I guess this is expected as there is no direct trust relationship between the child domains in Forest A and the root of Forest B.
Under Advanced configuration of WLAN there are few features changed from the default configuration. I have configured this based on the following cisco configuration document. I do not think those are mandatory, but just configured as guided.
Cisco offers a free version of TACACS+ that you can download. However, please note that it is not a fully supported version. In fact, Cisco seldom updates the free TACACS+ daemon and it lacks several of the advanced features of commercially available TACACS+ software. Furthermore, Cisco warns that this free software comes with no warranty or support.
In this example, we configured the username ijbrown and assigned it a password, cisco. If you prefer, you can encrypt the password using DES encryption and store only this encrypted form in the configuration file. However, for this example, we chose to use a clear-text password. The TACACS+ server is now ready to accept authentication requests for this user.
To implement various Cumulus Linux features, Cumulus Networks has forked various software projects, like CFEngine Netdev and some Puppet Labs packages. Some of the forked code resides in the Cumulus Networks GitHub repository and some is available as part of the Cumulus Linux repository as Debian source packages.
To install Cumulus Linux, you use ONIE (Open Network Install Environment), an extension to the traditional U-Boot software that allows for automatic discovery of a network installer image. This facilitates the ecosystem model of procuring switches with an operating system choice, such as Cumulus Linux. The easiest way to install Cumulus Linux with ONIE is with local HTTP discovery:
The switch contains a battery backed hardware clock that maintains the time while the switch is powered off and in between reboots. When the switch is running, the Cumulus Linux operating system maintains its own software clock.
Connections are made in the order in which they are listed in this file. In most cases, you do not need to change any other parameters. You can add parameters used by any of the packages to this file, which affects all the TACACS+ client software. For example, the timeout value for NSS lookups (see description below) is set to 5 seconds by default in the /etc/tacplus_nss.conf file, whereas the timeout value for other packages is 10 seconds and is set in the /etc/tacplus_servers file. The timeout value is per connection to the TACACS+ servers. (If authorization is configured per command, the timeout occurs for each command.) There are several (typically four) connections to the server per login attempt from PAM, as well as two or more through NSS. Therefore, with the default timeout values, a TACACS+ server that is not reachable can delay logins by a minute or more per unreachable server. If you must list unreachable TACACS+ servers, place them at the end of the server list and consider reducing the timeout values.
Netfilter describes the mechanism for which packets are classified and controlled in the Linux kernel. Cumulus Linux uses the Netfilter framework to control the flow of traffic to, from, and across the switch. Netfilter does not require a separate software daemon to run; it is part of the Linux kernel itself. Netfilter asserts policies at layers 2, 3 and 4 of the OSI model by inspecting packet and frame headers based on a list of rules. Rules are defined using syntax provided by the iptables, ip6tables and ebtables userspace applications.
On certain platforms, there are limitations on hardware policing of packets in the INPUT chain. To work around these limitations, Cumulus Linux supports kernel based policing of these packets in software using limit/hashlimit matches. Rules with these matches are not hardware offloaded, but are ignored during hardware install.
Before you can authenticate with 802.1x on your switch, you must configure a RADIUS server somewhere in your network. Popular examples of commercial software with RADIUS capability include Cisco ISE and Aruba ClearPass.
You configure DACLs on the RADIUS server on your network using the methods provided by the RADIUS software, then you enable it for one or more switch ports on a given switch. This section shows the configuration methods for the FreeRADIUS server.
As Part of the CCIE Wireless lab we also need to have a CSA Server (besides the CWS server).The actual CSA software (also known as Cisco ACS) can run on a machine with Windows 2003/SP as underlying Operating system.
That is very helpful, but I want to ask which softwares or third party tools are required for its complete installation. I installed ACS server on my system with the help of VMWare , I also installed Mozilla Firefox but it is still not correctly working; it is not creating the users and performing Network configuration , plz tell me what i can do ?
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