Cisco AAA/Identity/Nac :: 1113 - Multiple Network Device Groups Using One Windows Remote Agent?
May 4, 2011
I'm working with a 1113 ACS device running the 4.2.0.124 software. I'm trying to get multiple network device groups to use an existing Remote Agent set up for authentication against our Windows domain. For instance, we want our infrastructure switches to authenticate agains the local Active Directory and our WLC to authenticate users agains the same Active Directory. When I try and set both network device groups to use the same remote agent, it fails and reports either the host name is already in use or the IP address overlaps with an existing remote agent.
The question is:
Can I have multiple network device groups use the same remote agent? Or do I have to install the remote agent software on separate Windows servers in order to have different types of devices authenticate against the Windows AD?
I have multiple campuses and a Central Admin...I've created Groups for all, except I need a few devices within Central to be available to the Campus Admins... (ie..a Cisco WCS System) How do I allow a device to be put into multiple NDG groups?
The problem is that i had configured the ACS appliance with a remote agent to Integrate with Microsoft active directory and I installed that agent on one of our domain controls and it is working fine.
When I installed another agent on anther domain control and add it to the ACS server it appear that the remote authentication service is working on it but when try to make the new agent the primary and the old one the secondary from External database configuration all the domain users authenticated but only to one group which configured in Unknown User Policy.It appeared like it can't read any more groups from active directory.
We have ACS 4.2.0.124 runnning with remote agent installed on win 2003/32 bit ent server. Now we are facing issue like logs (daily backup) from ACS to the Remote Agent is not happening properly. We usually get logs around 1 MB everyday in remote agent but sometimes we are getting 1 KB continuosly untill the services to be restarted in ACS manually.
I have ACS 5.2 running as a VM. I'm AD, then local authentication successfully for device access, but I want to define ACS user groups to restrict login. I don;t see any way to do this. If I use AD groups, they don;t show up as selection options on the policy screens, just the ACS locallyy defined groups.
Presently we are upgrading the existing domain controller to Windows Server 2008, R2 Standard Edition.
I'm bit confound with the information available for the upgrade scenarios. Listed out the present working versions.
Cisco ACS SE - Release 4.1(1) Build 23 Patch 5 Cisco ACS Remote Agent version 4.2(0.124)
As the new operating system is going to work on 64 Bits, I think the existing ACE SE and remote agent may/should be upgraded.
Based on my existing versions, provide the possible upgrade scenarios available for me.After upgrading SE and Remote Agent should be working for 64 bit OS.
I have been doing a bit of reading on the ACS 4.2 remote agent compatibility with Windows 2008 R2, and it seems like the only way out is to upgrade the ACS to 5.2. We have Cisco ACS 4.2 SE and if I install the Remote agent on a Windows 2003 member server instead of the 2008 R2 DC.
it's possible to install ACS Remote Agent 4.2.1 on VMWare server. Is it supported by Cisco?Do you have any experience with running the remote agent on VMWare servers?
Does cisco provides updates for underlying windows server in ACS SE 1113 ? Patch updates are available for ACS 4.2 , but how can we update underlying windows server , Does patches for ACS is enough to secure underlying windows server .
ACS 4.2 and remote agent was working properly two months before. But in past two months we are facing weird issue in RA server.For Somedays we are missing logs from both ACS and RA server. Once we notice this we use to restart the services in ACS to give workaround. But due to this we loose our daily logs intermittently and facing risk in without having logs.This is not like communication between ACS and RA is not at all happening. It happens properly for a week or month, but again it is going bad without any config change. CSAgent.ini file is properly configured.Full version is 4.2.1.15 and patch is 10 in acs and ra.ACS and Remote Agent Major and Patch version are same.
Is it possible to assign a single ssid to multiple interface groups by assigning the ssid to multiple AP groups?
I have buildings geographically dispersed that are configured with multiple vlans in interface groups so that I can maintain an addressing scheme of dhcp assigned addresses per building. Each building is also further grouped as AP groups. I'd like to know if by assigning the same wlan ssid to each of the AP groups, will I maintain addressing integrity for each building? I'm thinking it will work.
Do the buildings have to be outside AP range of each other to avoid problems?
I am using ACS 5.3 What I am about is setting user authentication against existence of the user in specific AD group, not just being a member in any AD. What is happening now, users get authenticated as long as they exists in the AD, luckily they fail on authorization, as it is bound to specific AD group.
how can I bind the authentication aginst specific group in AD, not just using AD1 as the identity source.
I have done a ADSSO config. Following all the steps in the guide with the specifics steps for windows 7 to modify the krb.txt and the strattomcat.I restart services activate the "Enable Agent-Based Windows Single Sign-On with Active Directory (Kerberos)" option on the NAM.Then, the ADSSO service start on the NAS.I modify the local policy according to the guide allowing all encryption except the one for future use.Then the NAC client say "User unknown" contact your network administrator.
As we all know, MS has changed the default workgroup names in different versions of windows. Additionally, you can rename your workgroup anything you like. I have XP, Vista, and Win7 computers, a television, BluRay player, a Wii, two printers, and a NAS with two USB drives attached. All of these -except the Win7- are wired to one of two switches. I have wireless: iPad, the Win7 notebook, Nintendo DSs. I have friend, and non-friend machines (computers, tablets, and phones) that come and go that are wired or wireless. The 3 windows computers all have the same workgroup name. All of my other units do not use workgroup names. I have a router, and two unmanaged switches, and have, on occasion, a second router. The main router, which has wired, and dual band wireless (each with two named wireless networks) nets, sees everything, by name and/or MAC address. Win7 is blind, deaf, and dumb.: it shows its own workgroup name, but no other workgroup name(s) , and, consequently, no unit on these other workgroups. It will show some wired units not in a workgroups - the television, and the printers (not the Wii or NAS). It will not show the wired XP computer! No wireless units either in workgroups or not in workgroups appear. Additionally, Win7 only shows units on its wireless network, not on the other three. The wired units it does show are not on any of the wireless networks, though it lists them on its wireless network.I have left the Homegroup, and terminated the Homegroup services. I have allowed discovery, and unlimited sharing of everything on every computer on the router, and yet the Win7 unit does not share or see well at all.Why?
We have multiple RA VPN groups on a 3845 router.RADIUS authentication is currently happening between the 3845 and a single Windows 2008 server. We have a specific windows group that AD users are members of, and they are allowed to connect via VPN.
I'm creating a new RA VPN Group, which should only allow different AD users. Is it possible to create another RADIUS association to the same server, or do I need to authenticate against a different Windows server?
Recently I've been working with the ACS 5.2 (Installed on VMWare). At the beginning I was using a Win Server 2003 Enterprise edition AD, and there was no problem with the AD and the CA Authority. Because some of my customers use Win Server 2008 I change the AD platform to Win Server 2008 Enterprise edition (x64).I don't really have a great experience with Win Server Platforms and, for what I've seen, the Win Server 2003 Services deployment is easier than the Win Server 2008 is.
So, when I used the Win server 2003 I could not only synchronize the ACS with the AD but also use some groups created on the AD to perform the Network Access Authentication. When I try to do the same with the Win Server 2008 AD the ACS and the Server get Synchronized but when I want to add the groups for the Authentication purposes there is no one, absolutely nothing... so I cannot do any test.Also I looked for information about the compatibility between the ACS 5.2 and the Win Server 2008 platforms and at the end the platforms are compatibles.
we have a Cisco ACS 1113 SE running v4.0.1.44 and are trying to upgrade it to v.4.2.0.124 following the instructions to upgrade it to v4.1.1.24 first.
We are using the following CD "ACS SE Overall Upgrade CD ACS 3.3.4 and 4,1,1,24 Upgrades"
We can download the 4.1.1.24 image to the ACS appliance via distribution server but the upgrade fails- we obtained the following console output when attempted upgrade was tried;
Upgrade package was not verified Applying this upgrade package may corrupt the appliance Continue at your own risk!
I have some VSAs to import into my 1113 box, but I am stuck before I can even start :-( I have an accountActions.csv file containing some VSAs (this is just a test csv file.) I also have an FTP server that is accessible from the 1113 system.
When at the GUI for the 1113 I do System Configuration --> RDBMS Synchronization I get the RDBSM Synchronization Setup screen all right. I have entered all the parameters associated with the FTP server, and selected manual synchronization. The problem is that there are no entries in the AAA Servers window at the Synchronization Partners section at the bottom, and therefore I can't get the 1113 to retrieve my accountActions.csv file, an action that (I guess) is triggered by clicking on the Synchronize Now button.
I do have an AAA Server defined in the 1113. It's a RADIUS server called Self, not assigned to any NDG.I guess I do not understand this at all. I just want to import some external VSAs. Do I need to have an external AAA server to accomplish this? If not, how do I get my local Self server to appear in the list of synchronization partners?
3)applAcs_4.2.1.15.8.zip (ACS SE 4.2.1.15.8 cumulative patch)
take it forward to upgrade by step by step procedure. ( is that same like TFTP to transfer these packeges to appliance or different method? ) (we are using Windows XP system)
I tried to re-image a cisco 1113 ACS appliance into windows 2003 and was successful. I suppose to use this for my staging/LAB.My only problem is the NIC cards shows unknown since no appropraite driver was found. Googled for a few days but ends up nothing. What is the exact driver?
I want to gather an inventory of all devices that shows the AAA client name, IP addresses, authentication method and key under my Network Configuration on my ACS appliance. Is there a report to run in it that will shows this, or is something that has to be done manually?
I have an 1113 acs server which is not booting and hanged. Earlier its was working but i am facing the problem from today. I capture after reload the devices its asking for press F2 and F12 but when i try to do same its not allow to do the same.(Also attached the capture)
When i try to check the same through connect the desktop and reload the devices its showing the Cisco logo screen after that its showing the blank screen.is the ACS gone faulty or I will have to try with reimage the devices.
Our ACS appliance (Cisco 1113) has died and it is not cost effective to get it replaced as it will only be used until the end of this year.Is it possible to get the tacacs software to install on a Windows server? How do I go about sourcing the software as the original documentation is no longer available? Will the fact that I have a defunct appliance be sufficient proof to get a copy of the software? We are currently running v4.1
I just just purchased a CSACSE-1113-K9 and I need to wipe the Administrator password. I am also not sure what the default login credentials even are. There doesn't seem to be much out there for this device or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place?
Having CSACSE-1113-K9 with ACS 4.2.15.I want to configure windows user database under extrenal user database but i get an error (attached) 'An error has occured while processing the Authen DLL Configure pagebecasue an error occured.I tried to stop the services and start agian but the same issue. The eappliance is secondary (backup) ACS. On the primary it is working fine.
I've recently installed a certificate on my ACS 1113 appliance and in the Admin setup enabled management access over HTTPS. Since then I've not been able to access the GUI console. I have done some troubleshooting and I'm fairly certain that I have a certificate issue as Firefox gives me the error: Certificate type not approved for application. (Error code: sec_error_inadequate_cert_type)when I try and connect. So I want to either reconfigure the management access to use just HTTP or remove the certificate. I have logged on to the serial console and there are no options her to do this. The RADIUS and TACACS functions are working correctly - I just can't logon via the GUI.
Any relevant doc for ACS4.2 on 1113 platform to be integrated with Unix Directory service having LDAP10.2.0.0 version from Oracle or guidance available.
I Have a requirement to migrate from ipv4 to ipv6, I have checked the scalability of all the devices for this migration except ACS 1113 Solution Engine, Version 4.2. I couldnt reach the proper documentation to check its support for ipv6.
I have created a NAC Agent Customization Package and sucsesfully uploaded the 'custom.zip' file to - Policy>Policy Elements>Results>ClientProvisioning>Resources.
However, when I try to edit my Client Provisioning Policy and select AgentCustomizationPackage, my custom package dosn't appear on the drop down list, so i'm unable to select it!
We have a working L2 OOB VG deployment. The NAC agent pops up then says it has granted full access. The issue is about 45 seconds later it pops again then says it has granted full netowrk access. Then it does it again...etc.... The CAM thinks things are fine as it just keeps adding the user to the OUL.
