Adding High Availability Cisco Nac Appliance To Your Network - Cisco NAC3350-PROF-K9 - NAC Profiler Server Installation Manual

Configuring High Availability (HA)
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Adding High Availability Cisco NAC Appliance To Your Network

The following diagrams illustrate how HA-CAMs and HA-CASs can be added to an example
core-distribution-access network (with Catalyst 6500s in the distribution and access layers).
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layers are running HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol), and the access switches are dual-homed to the
distribution switches.
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Adding High Availability Cisco NAC Appliance To Your Network, page 4-1
Installing a Clean Access Manager High Availability Pair, page 4-3
Installing a Clean Access Server High Availability Pair, page 4-17
Configuring High Availability for Virtual Gateway Mode, page 4-42
Useful CLI Commands for HA, page 4-43
shows a network topology without Cisco NAC Appliance, where the core and distribution
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