Nortel Networks 4050 manual Before you begin

Chapter 6 Configuring authentication 235

Before you begin

Before you configure authentication on the Nortel SNAS 4050, you must complete the following tasks:

1Create the Nortel SNAS 4050 domain, if applicable (see “Creating a domain using the CLI” on page 121 or “Creating a domain using the SREM” on page 151).

If you ran the quick setup wizard during initial setup, Domain 1 has been created on the Nortel SNAS 4050.

Note: With Nortel Secure Network Access Switch

Software Release 1.0, you cannot configure the Nortel SNA solution to have more than one domain.

2Create and configure the groups (see “Configuring groups and profiles” on page 191).

3For external authentication servers, create or modify settings on the external server as required.

a A free RADIUS server may require specific settings in the clients.conf file and the Users file to match group parameters you may have configured on the Nortel SNAS 4050.

b A Steel-belted RADIUS server requires specific settings in the vendor.ini file, master dictionary, and vendor dictionary.

c An MS IAS RADIUS server may require vendor parameters to be configured on the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

4To configure external authentication, you require the following information about the authentication server configuration:

a RADIUS servers:

—server IP address

—port number used for the service

—shared secret

—Vendor-Id attribute

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