Security Overview

Precedence of Security Options

value applied to a client session is determined in the following order (from highest to lowest priority) in which a value configured with a higher priority overrides a value configured with a lower priority:

1. Attribute profiles applied through the Network Immunity network-management application using SNMP (see “Network Immunity Manager”)

2. 802.1X authentication parameters (RADIUS-assigned)

3. Web- or MAC-authentication parameters (RADIUS-assigned)

4. Local, statically-configured parameters

Although RADIUS-assigned settings are never applied to ports for non- authenticated clients, the Dynamic Configuration Arbiter allows you to configure and assign client-specific port configurations to non-authenticated clients, provided that a client’s MAC address is known in the switch in the forwarding database. DCA arbitrates the assignment of attributes on both authenticated and non-authenticated ports.

DCA does not support the arbitration and assignment of client-specific attributes on trunk ports.

 

Network Immunity Manager

 

Network Immunity Manager (NIM) is a plug-in to ProCurve Manager (PCM)

 

and a key component of the ProCurve Network Immunity security solution

 

that provides comprehensive detection and per-port-response to malicious

 

traffic at the ProCurve network edge. NIM allows you to apply policy-based

 

actions to minimize the negative impact of a client’s behavior on the network.

 

For example, using NIM you can apply a client-specific profile that adds or

 

modifies per-port rate-limiting and VLAN ID assignments.

 

 

N o t e

NIM actions only support the configuration of per-port rate-limiting and VLAN

 

ID assignment; NIM does not support CoS (802.1p) priority assignment.

 

NIM-applied parameters temporarily override RADIUS-configured and locally

 

 

configured parameters in an authentication session. When the NIM-applied

 

action is removed, the previously applied client-specific parameter (locally

 

configured or RADIUS-assigned) is re-applied unless there have been other

 

configuration changes to the parameter. In this way, NIM allows you to

 

minimize network problems without manual intervention.

 

NIM also allows you to configure and apply client-specific profiles on ports

 

that are not configured to authenticate clients (unauthorized clients), provided

 

that a client’s MAC address is known in the switch’s forwarding database.

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