Cisco AAA/Identity/Nac :: ACS 5.1 - Accounting Is Not Working?
Sep 12, 2012
I've got an issue with my ACS 5.1 implementation not updating any of the RADIUS or TACACS authz, authc, or acct records. Nothing is showing up, even though i've logged in via TACACS to several devices, and there are numerous wireless devices authenticated and online via RADIUS right now.
How to configure ACS 5.1 local administrator accounting and where have to check the accounting log . suppose administrator logged in to ACS and created some user or delete users where will see the log , which user have they created or deleted.
ACE is configured to point accounting to ACS servers but ACS servers are not seeing all the accounting logs. I can only see accounting logs from ACE for watchdog, start and stop.
Following best practices on cisco documentations we did set aaa acounting update periodic 5 with 250 switches in the deployment every single switch is geneating and sending 9.990 acct records this is too much the new testing parameterswe are using is aaa acounting update newinfo periodic 15 and this lowered accts by 2/3 (3500) moreover from switch monitoring the most accts records sent by it are related to the trunk-port any suggestion to mitigate this informations storm rather than raising the 15 min period to higher values?are this records generating from the trunk port normal?
I am setting up reports for tacacs accounting on ACS 5.3. However, accounting only seems to work after entering enable mode on the switch. I would like to see all commands, even the enable command when in privlage 1 mode.
i changed from ACS 4 to ACS 5.2. Everything works fine but i have authentication failed in the Radius accouting reports every time when users connect through ASA or Juniper into our network. Juniper amd ASA only send accounting informations to ACS. The users are not configured on the ACS, authentication is done via external LDAP. So my question is why do o see authentication error on ACS because Juniper and ASA only send accounting packets ?
I've set up my 5540 ASA to accounting commands on TACACS+.Every moviment done through ASDM is logged on TACACS+ by this form: cmd=perfmon interval 10.What does that mean?Why doesn't it record the exaclty command I'd issued?
on the dashboard of the "Monitoring & Report Viewer" I see a lot of system alarms related to the database.The explanation of the alarm says to look at the Collector logs for the details.
Whether ISE-3315-K9 with ise version: Service Engine: 1.0.4.573 , supports the command level accounting Bascially , we have integrated Cisco Switches with Cisco ISE for Device Authentication using Radius , we are able get the authentication logs on to the devices , but for any command changes or update done on Cisco devices we are not able to get the command accounting.
We have Cisco ACS 4.2 in our network and the accounting is done for 750-1000 devices and only for level priv-15.If i want to enable accounting for all levels from priv-1 to 15. All commands executed in devices are sent to ACS. Does the ACS can that much sessions from those many devices?Am also planning to configure acs remote agent to store all the accounting history.
I have a problem trying to export logs to the Cisco ACS View from my ACS 4.2In the document [URL] Cisco states that one of the mandatory attributes for export to work is "Network Access Profile Name" under TACACS+ Accounting (under ACS 4.2 System configuration -> Logging settings). Well, I don't have this mandatory attribute listed in ACS under TACACS+ accounting log configuration. I tried to ignore this attribute, but then ACS View complains about null value for the attribute mentioned above.Is this some bug in ACS View or ACS or maybe I simply missing something?
I'm trying to test such 802.1x wired environment:windows xp sp3 as supplicant windows NPS as radius server 2960 as authenticator latest anyconnect (3.1.01065) + nam and standalone profile editor.I have a question: What is the difference between protected identity pattern and unprotected identity pattern (set in nam profile editor)? As I understand documentation PEAP-MSCHAPv2 is a tunneled method and it uses un- protected identity pattern to protect user's identity during phase 0. But if I use any fake identity here (anonymous, anonymous@[domain], etc) access is rejected (Access-Reject in switch debugs). I have to use exacly the same pattern in unprotected identity pattern as in protected identity pattern ([username] or [username]@[domain]) to gain access, regardless of authenticaton mode (same in machine only, user only authentication).
I got a question about ACS 5.3 and WLC We have now the ACS 5.3 running for MAB (good working) and TACAS for device AAA.But now our WLC’s will not work.I have created already a special “custom attribute” => role1 / mandatory / ALL Already changed to the combinations Role1=ALL / Role1=All / Role1=all / role1=ALL / role1=All / role1=all But still not working. I get a wrong response.
If I choose to authenticate NCS users through Cisco ACS (5.4 in this instance) via TACACS, do I still have the ability to do accounting to track what changes they have made? I'm not getting anything in the TACACS accounting reports and I don't see anywhere to configure TACACS for accounting within NCS gui like I can on a WLC. I know that NCS has an internal audit trail but if a users account is both a local account on NCS as well as an account being authenticated through ACS does the Audit trail on NCS for that local user still contain the information about changes the user made? I ask because it looks like it does but I want to make sure I'm not going mad. Here is my example:
Local account username: NCS_Admin2AD account via TACACS username: NCS_Admin2
Audit trail for the NCS_Admin2 account on NCS looks like changes are being logged to NCS even though the user is logging in with their AD credentials via TACACS.
I have a dot1x client with client certificate working well with my ACS 5.2 and EAP-TLS. Now I would like to configure the Re-Auth periode on the ACS 5.2, I did the following:
1. Configure a Access Profile with Reauthentication Timer = static and 30 seconds (see attachment ACS1.png and ACS2.png)
2. Enabled authentication periodic and authentication timer reauthenticate server on switchport
I have to created command set under "Policy Elements>Authorization and Permissions>Device Administration" for limited access user in ACS 5.3. Like i triyed to give them permission to only few show commands. I have set user priviledge 1, 7, 10 however either of the priviledge level user was able to run those commands. I works like the shell priviledge level.
We have a Cisco Access Control Server (TACACS+ version 5.1) with an additional 2 port NIC card. This produces 4 ports on the ACS server(G0 through G3).After initial setup of the ACS server with an IP address on G0, I connected a Windows 7server with IE8 to G0. The ACS web interface appears (after accepting certificate) and Ientered some user accounts and NDGs.I then connected the ACS server to a configured port with port-security on our 6500switch. The port becomes err-disabled since the MAC address does not match up. It appearsthat the onboard NIC on the ACS server is bonded thus producing the MAC address issue.To fix this connection issue, on the ACS server, I cleared out G0 and setup G2 (additiional NIC card) with the IP address. After connecting to the 6500 switch, the ACS server port works fine. I removed the connection to the 6500 and connected the Windows server to the ACS.I can ping the ACS server but the web interface is now unavailable unlike before. I do not get a certificate warning on IE, it just states that internet not available. On ACS, the 'show' status of acs shows all the processes are running and initialized. It has got me stumped as all I did was change NIC configurationon the ACS server.
it seems there is no option for flexconnect registered AP's to work with external accounting server.I am using zeroshell server to authenticate with the radius server,which works perfectly!but there is no option under flexconnect security group to specify accounting server.is there a way to redierct AP to a local acoouting+authentication radius ?
we updated our NAC appliances from 4.8.1 to 4.9 and have noticed that web authentication is no longer woking on Apple IOS devices. We had setup a user page for the MAC_ALL OS and iphones etc. were able to authenticate using thier browser ok. Now (after the upgrade) after they authenticate they receive the below warning.
There doens't seem to be any other config changes we can make for the IOS device.
I configured multidomain on a Cisco 3650 port (12.2(53)SE1), and connected a 7941 Phone and laptop behind it. The phone gets successfully authenticated but the PC does not get fully connected. The PC adapter´s icon shows a "authentication error" message. The same PC, connected to another port (same commands except "authentication host-mode multi-domain") works perfect, including new VLAN and ACL assigned from ACS.
This is the configuration on the switch port where the PC chained to the phone fails:
This is the configuration on the switch port where the PC without a phone works OK (exactly the same config, except for multidomain):
interface FastEthernet0/7 switchport access vlan 701 switchport mode access switchport voice vlan 123 authentication event fail action next-method authentication event server dead action authorize vlan 704 authentication event no-response action authorize vlan 701 authentication open authentication port-control auto authentication periodic dot1x pae authenticator dot1x timeout tx-period 60 spanning-tree portfast When the PC fails to get connected, I see the following messages on the switch:
Sep 17 18:36:18: %DOT1X-5-SUCCESS: Authentication successful for client (0023.aeb8.ce44) on Interface Fa0/6 AuditSessionID 0A01460A000000310080FDFCSep 17 18:36:18: %AUTHMGR-7-RESULT: Authentication
I have not managed to get the Monitoring to work on the ACS 5.1. This is an eval version. Advanced monitoring and reporting is installed on the ACS. This is my configuration on the Cisco Router
aaa accounting exec default start-stop group tacacs+aaa accounting commands 0 default start-stop group tacacs+aaa accounting commands 1 default start-stop group tacacs+aaa accounting commands 15 default start-stop group tacacs+aaa accounting connection default start-stop group tacacs+ logging origin-id iplogging facility sysloglogging source-interface GigabitEthernet1/1logging host 1.1.1.1 transport udp port 20514 logging monitor informational epm logging
On the ACS, when I open the dashboard --> ACS health -> I get Status not available.Global Instance under Logging Categories been configured for local logging?
we are facing a strange problem with a Cisco Small Business SG 200-08 Switch (firmware release 1.0.1.0). When configuring the switch to act as a RADIUS Client with 802.1x port security enabled, it sends the “Account Name” attribute to the radius server with max. 32 characters. The string comes in this format: host/dns Host Name and will be cut after 32 characters which will cause the NPS to say: “The specified domain does not exist.” and NPS is right. When I reduce the hostname so that host/dnsHostName <= 32 characters, authentication is working fine. And by the way, we also have a SG 200-26 in production and it can handle more than 32 characters which lead me to think of a bug in the firmware of the SG 200-08.
I'm trying to configure a timeout for network connection, but when it suppose to disconnect client, it's not working. Is it possible to do this??
Only works when the client is connecting and is denied if the time is not valid. But how could I do this if the client is already connected, enable re-authentication?
I am working on cisco ACS 5.0, authentication is working fine on netscreen. Can acs be used for authorization and accounting of netscreen devices. if yes, what will be the configurations.
I have installed DCNM 5.2(2c) on windows box to manage Nexus 7K devices.\ have for the time being one device that i have manage and i see often the following text:Discrepancy in device accounting log,Recommended action: clear the accounting log and discover the device. Device details are not available.How can i delete the accounting log and why do i have this message ?