Accounting Using A Radius Server; Interactions With Other Features; Radius Workflow - Cisco Small Business 200 Series Administration Manual

Security
Configuring RADIUS
The device can act as a RADIUS client that uses the RADIUS server for the following services:
• Authentication—Provides authentication of regular and 802.1X users logging onto the device by
using usernames and user-defined passwords.
• Authorization—Performed at login. After the authentication session is completed, an authorization
session starts using the authenticated username. The RADIUS server then checks user privileges.
• Accounting—Enable accounting of login sessions using the RADIUS server. This enables a system
administrator to generate accounting reports from the RADIUS server.

Accounting Using a RADIUS Server

The user can enable accounting of login sessions using a RADIUS server.
The user-configurable, TCP port used for RADIUS server accounting is the same TCP port that is used for
RADIUS server authentication and authorization.
Defaults
The following defaults are relevant to this feature:
• No default RADIUS server is defined by default.
• If you configure a RADIUS server, the accounting feature is disabled by default.

Interactions With Other Features

None.

Radius Workflow

To user a RADIUS server, do the following:
STEP 1
STEP 2
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Open an account for the device on the RADIUS server.
Configure that server along with the other parameters in the RADIUS and ADD
RADIUS Server pages.
If more than one RADIUS server has been configured, the device uses the
configured priorities of the available RADIUS servers to select the RADIUS server
to be used by the device.
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