10CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
■Moving specific users or computers (e.g. a PC infected with a virus) into an isolated network.
Figure 1 illustrates the integration of 3Com Network Access Manager with Microsoft's Internet Authentication Service (IAS) and Microsoft's Active Directory.
Figure 1 3Com Network Access Manager Integrated with IAS and Active
Directory
Network 
Administrator
Network
Operator
Access Manager User Interface | 3Com Network |
Users and Computers | Active Directory |
Microsoft
Internet
Authentication
Service
RADIUS Server
Microsoft Active Directory
RADIUS requests
RADIUS responses
RADIUS clients
3Com Network Access Manager is not a standalone RADIUS server.
3Com Network Access Manager is a rule based application that extends the RADIUS response from the IAS RADIUS server to include the VLAN and QoS profile associated with the rule, if the rule is obeyed. Network administrators create rules through the 3Com Network Access Manager Network Administration interface, and apply them to the users, groups and computers configured within the domain. Network operators, if assigned permission by the network administrator, can apply rules to users, groups and computers, see “Selecting Appropriate Permissions For An Operator” in Chapter 3.
3Com Network Access Manager can be used to extend the security on a network by setting up a
