C H A P T E R 5

Customizing Your Configuration

After you have configured and tested a basic site, you can begin to make changes to better address your own sites’s needs. This chapter provides information that describes how to:

•Use groups to select the appropriate user service

•Use multiple user lists to separate users

•Performs authentication and authorization against data from an LDAP server

•Use a script to determine which remote server to use for authentication and authorization

•Use session management to allocate and account for dynamic resources such as the number of concurrent user sessions.

The examples in this chapter provides an introduction to many of the CAR 4.2 objects and their properties. See Chapter 4, “Cisco Access Registrar Server Objects,” of the Cisco Access Registrar 4.2 User’s Guide for more detailed information.

Configuring Groups

The first change you might want to make is to create distinct groups based on the type of service, and divide your user community according to these groups.

You can use Cisco AR UserGroups in two ways:

•You can create separate groups for each specific type of service. For example, you can have a group for PPP users and another for Telnet users.

•You can use a default group and, depending on how the user logs in, use a script to determine which service to provide.

The default Cisco AR installation provides examples of both types of groups.

Configuring Specific Groups

For users who always require the same type of service, you can create specific user groups, and then set the user’s group membership to that group.

Table 5-1provides an overview of the process. The following sections describe the process in more detail.

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