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Understanding PolicyFlow, the PolicyAssistant, and the
Policy Wizard
Using the 8950 AAA Policy Assistant in Server
Management Tool
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Issue 1, December 2008
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Understanding PolicyFlow, the PolicyAssistant, and the Policy Wizard
About PolicyAssistant and Policy Wizard
The PolicyAssistant is a tool for creating access policies. It provides an easy way to
configure 8950 AAA software through its built-in Policy Wizard. The Policy Wizard
collects data about how your requests should be processed and saves that data to special
PolicyAssistant files.
The PolicyAssistant panel within the SMT is the starting point for using the Policy
Wizard. This panel contains a table of available policies that you have defined for your
network. Each policy defines the user source (where user profiles are stored), the type of
authentication the server performs, user and policy limits, and how accounting
information is processed. You use the Policy Wizard to create policies and populate this
table. The first time you run the PolicyAssistant the table panel will not appear, instead the
Policy Wizard will start automatically so you can create your first policy.
The Policy Wizard will help you define the following information for each policy you
create:
•A name to be assigned to each policy you create.
•The location where user profiles will be stored (Files, LDAP, Database, and so on).
•The method used to authenticate users (text passwords, Secure Token cards, and so
on).
•A set of rules for how accounting records are processed.
•Any session limits that might apply to this policy.
Installing the PolicyAssistant
How to install the Policy Assistant
You can elect to install the PolicyAssistant during the 8950 AAA installation process. If
you see the PolicyFlow Editor in the Navigation Pane and do not see the PolicyAssistant,
then the PolicyAssistant is not installed.
The procedure for installing the Policy Assistant using the SMT is described in the
Installing the PolicyAssistant and the Policy Flow Editor section of Chapter3, “Server
Management Tool Command Set,”. Refer to this section/chapter for more information.