Creating Services; Configuring The Radius Server - Cisco Access Registrar 4.2 Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 5 Customizing Your Configuration

Creating Services

Run the aregcmd command:
Step 1
Use the cd command to change to the Services level:
Step 2
Use the add command to add the appropriate LDAP service. The following example adds the
Step 3
remote-ldap
Use the cd command to change to the remote-ldap object:
Step 4
Step 5 Use the set command to set the type to
MultipleServersPolicy or you can use the set command to change them.
Use the cd command to change to the RemoteServers:
Step 6
Step 7 Use the set command to set the server number and name. By giving each server a number you tell Cisco
AR the order you want it to access each server. Cisco AR uses this order when implementing the
MultipleServersPolicy of Failover or RoundRobin.
The following example sets the first remote server to the server
The MultipleServersPolicy determines how Cisco AR handles multiple remote servers.
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Configuring the RADIUS Server

In the default Cisco AR configuration, authentication and authorization are handled through the
local-users Service object. This causes Cisco AR to match requesting users with the names in its own
database. When you select LDAP as a remote server for authentication and authorization, Cisco AR
looks to that server for user information.
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aregcmd
cd /Radius/Services
service:
add remote-ldap "Remote LDAP Service"
cd /Radius/Services/remote-ldap
set type ldap
cd /Radius/Services/remote-ldap/RemoteServers
set 1 QuickExample
When you set it to
Failover
determines the server is offline. At that time, Cisco AR redirects all requests to the next server in
the list until it finds a server that is online.
When you set it to
RoundRobin
RemoteServers list in order to share the resource load across all the servers listed in the
RemoteServers list.
. You can accept the default Outage Policy and
ldap
, Cisco AR directs requests to the first server in the list until it
, Cisco AR directs each request to the next server in the
Installing and Configuring Cisco Access Registrar, 4.2
Configuring a Remote Server for AA
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QuickExample
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