Cisco Systems OL-9971-01 manual About Remote Agents, Remote Agent Configuration Options

Chapter 3 Network Configuration

Configuring Remote Agents (ACS Solution Engine Only)

This section contains the following topics:

•About Remote Agents, page 3-19

•Remote Agent Configuration Options, page 3-19

•Adding a Remote Agent, page 3-20

•Editing a Remote Agent Configuration, page 3-21

•Deleting a Remote Agent Configuration, page 3-22

About Remote Agents

An ACS Solution Engine can use remote agents for remote logging and authentication of users with a Windows external user database. Before you can configure remote logging and authentication by using a Windows external user database, you must add at least one remote agent configuration to the Remote Agents table in the Network Configuration section.

For more information about remote agents, including how to install and configure them, see the Installation Guide for Cisco Secure ACS Solution Engine Release 4.1.

Remote Agent Configuration Options

The Add Remote Agent and Remote Agent Setup pages include the following options:

Note A remote agent that does not have a corresponding configuration in ACS, or whose configuration in ACS is incorrect, cannot communicate with ACS to receive its configuration, logging data, or Windows authentication requests.

•Remote Agent Name—The name that you assign to the remote agent configuration. You configure remote agent logging and Windows authentication by using remote agent names. We recommend that you adopt a descriptive, consistent naming convention for remote agents. For example, you could assign the same name as the hostname of the server that runs the remote agent. The maximum length for a remote agent name is 32 characters.

Note After you submit the remote agent name, you cannot change it. If you want to use a different name for a remote agent, delete the remote agent configuration, create a new remote agent configuration by using the new name, and change remote logging and Windows authentication configurations that use the remote agent.

•Remote Agent IP Address—The IP address of the remote agent, in dotted-decimal format. For example, 10.77.234.3.

•Remote Agent Port—The TCP port on which the remote agent listens for communication from ACS. The maximum length for the TCP port number is 6 characters. The Remote Agent Port must be a numeric value in the range of 0 to 65535.

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