Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Security Configuration Manual page 118

Configuring Settings for All RADIUS Servers
SUMMARY STEPS
1. configure terminal
2. radius-server key string
3. radius-server retransmit retries
4. radius-server timeout seconds
5. radius-server deadtime minutes
6. end
7. show running-config
8. copy running-config startup-config
DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action
Step 1 configure terminal
Example:
Switch# configure terminal
Step 2
radius-server key string
Example:
Switch(config)# radius-server key
your_server_key
Switch(config)# key your_server_key
Step 3 radius-server retransmit retries
Example:
Switch(config)# radius-server retransmit
5
Step 4 radius-server timeout seconds
Example:
Switch(config)#
Step 5 radius-server deadtime minutes
Example:
Switch(config)#
0
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radius-server timeout 3
radius-server deadtime
Purpose
Enters the global configuration mode.
Specifies the shared secret text string used between the switch and
all RADIUS servers.
The key is a text string that must match the encryption key
Note
used on the RADIUS server. Leading spaces are ignored,
but spaces within and at the end of the key are used. If you
use spaces in your key, do not enclose the key in quotation
marks unless the quotation marks are part of the key.
Specifies the number of times the switch sends each RADIUS request
to the server before giving up. The default is 3; the range 1 to 1000.
Specifies the number of seconds a switch waits for a reply to a
RADIUS request before resending the request. The default is 5
seconds; the range is 1 to 1000.
When a RADIUS server is not responding to authentication requests,
this command specifies a time to stop the request on that server.
This avoids the wait for the request to timeout before trying the next
configured server. The default is 0; the range is 1 to 1440 minutes.
Configuring RADIUS
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