Configuring Authenticated Switch Access

Managing Switch Security

 

 

 

 

Configuring Authenticated Switch Access

Setting up Authenticated Switch Access involves the following general steps:

1Set Up the Authentication Servers. This procedure is described briefly in this chapter. See the “Managing Authentication Servers” chapter of the OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Guide for complete details.

2Set Up the Local User Database. Set up user information on the switch if user login or privilege infor- mation will be pulled from the switch. See Chapter 7, “Managing Switch User Accounts.”

3Set Up the Management Interfaces. This procedure is described in “Setting Up Management Inter- faces for ASA” on page 8-9.

4Set Up Accounting. This step is optional and is described in “Configuring Accounting for ASA” on page 8-12.

Additional configuration is required in order to set up the switch to communicate with external authentica- tion servers. This configuration is briefly mentioned in this chapter and described in detail in the “Manag- ing Authentication Servers” chapter of the OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Guide.

If you are using the local switch database to authenticate users, user accounts must be set up on the switch. Procedures for creating user accounts are described in this chapter. See Chapter 7, “Managing Switch User Accounts.”

Note that by default:

•Authenticated switch access is available only through the console port.

•Users are authenticated through the console port via the local user database on the switch.

These defaults provide “out-of-the-box” security at initial startup. Other management interfaces (Telnet, HTTP, etc.) must be specifically enabled before they can access the switch.

A summary of the commands used for configuring ASA is given in the following table:

Commands

Used for ...

 

 

user

Configuring the local user database on the switch.

 

 

aaa radius-server

Setting up the switch to communicate with external RADIUS or LDAP

aaa ldap-server

authentication servers.

 

 

aaa authentication

Configuring the management interface and specifying the servers and/or

 

local user database to be used for the interface.

 

 

aaa accounting session

Optional. Specifies servers to be used for accounting.

 

 

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