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Creating Server To create a server group, you must first configure the RADIUS servers Groups with their addresses and any optional parameters. After configuring

RADIUS servers, type the following command:

set server group group-namemembers server-name1

[server-name2][server-name3][server-name4]

For example, to create a server group called shorebirds with the RADIUS servers heron, egret, and sandpiper, type the following commands:

WX1200# set radius server egret address 192.168.253.1 key apple WX1200# set radius server heron address 192.168.253.2 key pear WX1200# set radius server sandpiper address 192.168.253.3 key plum WX1200# set server group shorebirds members egret heron sandpiper

In this example, a request to shorebirds results in the RADIUS servers being contacted in the order that they are listed in the server group configuration, first egret, then heron, then sandpiper. You can change the RADIUS servers in server groups at any time. (See “Adding Members to a Server Group” on page 527.)

Any RADIUS servers that do not respond are marked dead (unavailable) for a period of time. The unresponsive server is skipped over, as though it did not exist, during its dead time. Once the dead time elapses, the server is again a candidate for receiving requests. To change the default dead-time timer, use the set radius or set radius server command.

Ordering Server Groups

You can configure up to four methods for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA). AAA methods can be the local database on the WX switch and/or one or more RADIUS server groups. You set the order in which the WX switch attempts the AAA methods by the order in which you enter the methods in CLI commands.

In most cases, if the first method results in a pass or fail, the evaluation is final. If the first method does not respond or results in an error, the WX switch tries the second method and so on.

However, if the local database is the first method in the list, followed by a RADIUS server group, the WX switch responds to a failed search of the database by sending a request to the following RADIUS server group. This exception is called local override.

For more information, see “AAA Methods for IEEE 802.1X and Web

Network Access” on page 442.

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