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Deploying ACS in a NAC/NAP Environment 2-15

Additional Topics

2-16

 

Remote Access Policy

2-16

Security Policy

2-17

 

Administrative Access Policy 2-17

Separation of Administrative and General Users 2-18

Database Considerations 2-19

Number of Users

2-19

Type of Database

2-19

 

 

 

 

 

Network Latency and Reliability

2-19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuring New Features in ACS 4.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

C H A P T E R

3

 

3-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Global EAP-FAST Configuration Options

3-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disabling of EAP-FAST PAC Processing in Network Access Profiles 3-3

 

 

 

 

 

Disabling NetBIOS 3-4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuring ACS 4.2 Enhanced Logging Features

3-5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuring Group Filtering at the NAP Level

 

3-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Option to Not Log or Store Dynamic Users

3-7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Active Directory Multi-Forest Support

3-7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuring Syslog Time Format in ACS 4.2

 

3-7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSA Support on the ACS SE

3-8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purging the RSA Node Secret File

3-10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuring RSA SecurID Token and LDAP Group Mapping 3-11

 

 

 

 

 

Turning Ping On and Off 3-16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using RDBMS Synchronization to Create dACLs and Specify Network Configuration 4-1

C H A P T E R

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

New RDBMS Synchronization Features in ACS Release 4.2

4-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using RDBMS Synchronization to Configure dACLs

4-2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1: Enable dACLs

4-2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2: Create a Text File to Define the dACLs

4-2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Code an accountActions File to Create the dACL and Associate a User or Group with the

 

 

 

 

 

dACL 4-4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sample accountActions CSV File

4-4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4: Configure RDBMS Synchronization to Use a Local CSV File 4-5

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5: Perform RDBMS Synchronization

4-8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Running RDBMS Synchronization from the ACS GUI

4-8

 

 

 

 

 

 

Running CSDBSync Manually to Create the dACLs

4-8

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performing RDBM Synchronization Using a Script

4-9

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration Guide for Cisco Secure ACS 4.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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