RADIUS Authentication and Accounting

Overview

Note

Overview

Feature

Default

Menu

CLI

Web

Configuring RADIUS Authentication

None

n/a

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n/a

Configuring RADIUS Accounting

None

n/a

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n/a

Viewing RADIUS Statistics

n/a

n/a

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n/a

 

 

 

 

 

RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) enables you to use up to three servers (one primary server and one or two backups) and maintain separate authentication and accounting for each RADIUS server employed. For authentication, this allows a different password for each user instead of having to rely on maintaining and distributing switch-specific passwords to all users. For accounting, this can help you track network resource usage.

Authentication. You can use RADIUS to verify user identity for the following types of primary password access to the ProCurve switch:

Serial port (Console)

Telnet

SSH

Web

Port-Access

The switch does not support RADIUS security for SNMP (network manage- ment) access. For information on blocking unauthorized access through the web browser interface, refer to “Controlling Web Browser Interface Access When Using RADIUS Authentication” on page 5-17.

Accounting. RADIUS accounting on the switch collects resource consumption data and forwards it to the RADIUS server. This data can be used for trend analysis, capacity planning, billing, auditing, and cost analysis.

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