Chapter 3 Configuring the CSS as a Client of a RADIUS Server

Specifying a Secondary RADIUS Server

To remove a primary RADIUS server, enter:

(config)# no radius-server primary

Specifying a Secondary RADIUS Server

The CSS directs authentication requests to the secondary RADIUS server when the specified RADIUS primary server is unavailable. To specify a secondary RADIUS server to authenticate user information from the CSS RADIUS client (console or virtual authentication), use the radius-server secondary command.

Note Configuration of a secondary RADIUS server is optional.

The syntax for this global configuration mode command is:

radius-server secondary ip_address secret string {auth-port port_number}

Options and variables for this command are as follows:

secondary ip_address - The IP address or host name for the secondary RADIUS server. Enter the address in either dotted-decimal IP notation (for example, 192.168.11.1) or mnemonic host-name format (for example, myhost.mydomain.com).

secret string - The shared secret text string between the secondary RADIUS server and the CSS RADIUS client. The shared secret allows authentication transactions between the client and secondary RADIUS server to occur. Enter the shared secret as a case-sensitive string with no spaces (16 characters maximum).

auth-portport_number - (Optional) The UDP port on the primary RADIUS server allocated to receive authentication packets from the RADIUS client. Valid entries are 0 to 65535. The default is 1645.

To specify a secondary RADIUS server, enter:

(config) radius-server secondary 172.27.56.79 secret Hello auth-port

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To remove a secondary RADIUS server, enter:

(config)# no radius-server secondary

 

 

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