Configuring and Managing Access Rules for Administrative Users 283

Creating You can set up administrator and console access rules, and the Administrator and authentication and accounting methods for administrator access.

Console Access Rules

To set up administrator or console access rule properties

1Access the WX Switch wizard for the WX switch. (See “Accessing the WX Switch Wizard” on page 187.)

2Select AAA at the top of the wizard, if not already selected.

3Select Admin Access from the organizer list on the left side of the page, if not already selected.

4Click New Admin Access. The Create Admin Access wizard appears.

5In the User Glob box, type a full or partial username to be matched during authentication.

A user glob can have 1 to 80 alphanumeric characters, with no spaces or tabs. You can use asterisks as wildcards. The user glob it_* specifies all users with it_ in their usernames (for example, it_tamara).

6Do one of the following:

„To specify whether to use a RADIUS server group or the local database to authenticate the administrative user, see “To set the authentication method for administrator access”.

„To close the wizard and save the changes, click Finish.

To set the authentication method for administrator access

1At the top of the Create Admin Access wizard, select Authentication. The Authentication page appears.

2To enable this authentication rule, select Enabled. By default, a rule you configure in 3WXM is disabled, which means 3WXM does not add the rule to a switch’s configuration.

3To select the authentication method, click Choose Available, then select the method from the list:

„RADIUS server group — A server group that you have configured previously.

„LOCAL — The WX switch’s local database.

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