Security; Aaa Accounting - Dell Force10 S4810P Configuration Manual

Security

Security features are supported on platforms:
This chapter discusses several ways to provide access security to the Dell Force10 system.
Platform-specific features are identified by the
• AAA Accounting on page 877
• AAA Authentication on page 880
• AAA Authorization on page 883
• RADIUS on page 888
• TACACS+ on page 893
• Protection from TCP Tiny and Overlapping Fragment Attacks on page 897
• SCP and SSH on page 897
• Telnet on page 903
• VTY Line and Access-Class Configuration on page 910
• Trace Lists on page 904
For details on all commands discussed in this chapter, see the Security Commands chapter in the
Command Line Reference Guide.

AAA Accounting

AAA Accounting is part of the AAA security model (Accounting, Authentication, and Authorization),
which includes services for authentication, authorization, and accounting. For details on commands related
to AAA security, refer to the Security chapter in the
AAA Accounting enables tracking of services that users are accessing and the amount of network
resources being consumed by those services. When AAA Accounting is enabled, the network server
reports user activity to the security server in the form of accounting records. Each accounting record is
comprised of accounting AV pairs and is stored on the access control server.
As with authentication and authorization, you must configure AAA Accounting by defining a named list of
accounting methods and then applying that list to various VTY lines.
Configuration Task List for AAA
The following sections present the AAA Accounting configuration tasks:
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