Cisco Systems OL-24201-01 Authentication Records and Details, Dashboard Pages

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User Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.3

OL-24201-01

Chapter 11 Monitoring and Reporting in ACS

Authentication Records and Details

•Support for non-English characters (UTF-8)—You can have non-English characters in:

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Syslog messages—Configurable attribute value, user name, and ACS named configuration

objects

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GUI input fields

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Query pages

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Reports and Interactive Viewer

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Alarms

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Dashboard lookup

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Failure reason text

Note In Monitoring and Reports drawer pages, you can use the page area’s down arrow (v) to hide an area’s

content, and the right arrow (>) to show its content.

Authentication Records and Details

A primary source of information for reports are the authentication records. Reports are provided that

analyze these records according to multiple categories such as the Access Service used for the request,

the user or host referenced in the request, the device making the request, etc. ACS provides summaries

of the authentications per instance in each category, and administrators can get additional details.

Within each authentication record there is an option to view the details of the authentication record. The

details contain the following information:

•Authentication Details—Full details of the authentication, which includes details from the request,

the service, policies and rules selected for the requests, and the results returned in the response.

•Authentication Result—The contents of the result response.

•Steps—Lists the sequence of steps performed when processing the request.

The authentication details information is very helpful when trying to understand why a specific

successful response was returned, or to track the steps performed when a failed response was returned.

When you launch the Monitoring & Report Viewer, the Dashboard appears in a secondary web interface

window.

ACS 5.3 provides a new customizable dashboard that contains tabs and portlets, where the Monitoring

& Report Viewer consolidates your favorite queries, recent alarms and reports, and health status of ACS

instances. Each of these tabs can have multiple portlets with each portlet containing an application of

your choice.

You can select an application from the list the list of available applications. By default, the Monitoring

& Report Viewer provides the following tabs and applications in the Dashboard: