About This Guide

This document provides information to help you understand RADIUS concepts and to help you develop a better understanding of the Cisco Access Registrar 3.0 server. This document contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, “Overview,” overview of the RADIUS server, including connection steps, RADIUS message types, and using Cisco Access Registrar as a proxy server.

Chapter 2, “Understanding Cisco Access Registrar,” describes the Cisco Access Registrar object structure, and explains when Cisco Access Registrar references each of these objects during the processing of client requests.

Chapter 3, “Cisco Access Registrar Scripts,” describes the scripts provided with Cisco Access Registrar.

Chapter 4, “Understanding Replication,” describes Cisco Access Registrar's configuration replication features, functions, limitations and operation.

Chapter 5, “Understanding SNMP,” provides information about Cisco Access Registrar support for SNMP.

Chapter 6, “Prepaid Billing Solution,” describes the generic call flow between the three components required to support a prepaid billing solution using the RADIUS protocol: the AAA client, the Cisco Access Registrar 3.0 server, and a prepaid billing server.

This guide also contains a Glossary and an Index.

Obtaining Documentation

The following sections provide sources for obtaining documentation from Cisco Systems.

World Wide Web

You can access the most current Cisco documentation on the World Wide Web at the following sites:

http://www.cisco.com

http://www-china.cisco.com

http://www-europe.cisco.com

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