Port Access Control; Authenticator State - D-Link xStack DGS-3600 User Manual

Port Access Control

The following screens are used to monitor 802.1X statistics of the Switch, on a per port basis. To view the Port Access Control
screens, open the monitoring folder and click the Port Access Control folder. There are six screens to monitor.

Authenticator State

The following section describes the 802.1X Status on the Switch.
To view the Authenticator State, click Monitoring > Port Access
Control > Authenticator State.
This window displays the Authenticator State for individual ports
on a selected device. A polling interval between 1 and 60 seconds
can be set using the drop-down menu at the top of the window and
clicking OK.
The information on this window is described as follows:
Parameter
Auth PAE The Authenticator PAE State value can be:
State Initialize,
Authenticating,
Held, Force_Auth, Force_Unauth, or N/A.
N/A (Not Available) indicates that the port's
authenticator capability is disabled.
Backend The Backend Authentication State can be
State Request, Response, Success, Fail, Timeout,
Idle, Initialize, or N/A. N/A (Not Available)
indicates
capability is disabled.
Port Status Controlled Port Status can be Authorized,
Unauthorized, or N/A.
xStack DGS-3600 Series Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet Managed Switch
NOTE: The Authenticator State cannot be viewed on the Switch unless
802.1X is enabled by port or by MAC address. To enable 802.1X, go to
the DGS-3600 Web Management Tool menu.
Description
Disconnected,
Authenticated,
that the port's
Connecting,
Aborting,
authenticator
Figure 12- 20. Authenticator State window
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