Prerequisites For Radius; Guidelines And Limitations For Radius; Configuring Radius Servers - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Prerequisites for RADIUS

• roles—Lists all the roles to which the user belongs. The value field is a string that lists the role names
• accountinginfo—Stores accounting information in addition to the attributes covered by a standard
Prerequisites for RADIUS
RADIUS has the following prerequisites:
• Obtain IPv4 or IPv6 addresses or host names for the RADIUS servers.
• Obtain preshared keys from the RADIUS servers.
• Ensure that the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch is configured as a RADIUS client of the AAA servers.

Guidelines and Limitations for RADIUS

RADIUS has the following guidelines and limitations:
• You can configure a maximum of 64 RADIUS servers on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch.

Configuring RADIUS Servers

To configure RADIUS servers, perform this task:
Procedure
Step 1
Establish the RADIUS server connections to the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch.
Step 2 Configure the preshared secret keys for the RADIUS servers.
Step 3 If needed, configure RADIUS server groups with subsets of the RADIUS servers for AAA authentication
methods.
Step 4 If needed, configure any of the following optional parameters:
• Dead-time interval.
• Allow specification of a RADIUS server at login.
• Transmission retry count and timeout interval.
• Accounting and authentication attributes.
Step 5 If needed, configure periodic RADIUS server monitoring.
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RADIUS accounting protocol. This attribute is sent only in the VSA portion of the Account-Request
frames from the RADIUS client on the switch. It can be used only with the accounting protocol data
units (PDUs).
Configuring RADIUS
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