Cisco AAA/Identity/Nac :: Secure ACS 5.2 Appliance To Use Or Not To Use UCP
Nov 16, 2011
All users are located in the local identity store.So - assume I do not implement ACS but I do turn on password expiration after 60 or 90 days. Will a user whose password is about to expire attempts to authenticate against ACS 5.2, will they be notified that their password is about to expire?Also, when a user attempts to authenticate but their password expired yesterday, will they be prompted to change it and if so, how will that prompt to change it be presented?
I just want to know if i need to support High Availability in Cisco Secure ACS 5.1 appliance, will the base license suffice or do i need to buy Security Group Access System License/ Large deployment License. Again, do we require license for each appliance or just one is enough?
I Suppose the licensing rules are same for the Vmware version also.
My site got the NAC-3315 appliance and we would like to reimage this appliance to inline posture mode (for VPN purpose)What's the proper migration process should deal with this? Is the NAC-3315 hardware comply with the Inline posture mode requirement?
Newly shipped cisco ACS appliance 1121 has been shipped with ACS version 5.0 , I need to downgrade to ACS version 4.2,0 , I could not see recovery CD or DVD for acs 4.2 along with shipment , Is ACS 1121 appliance is comptaible to acs 4.2.0 version ? .
My ACS BOM details CSACS-1121-K9 ACS 1121 Appliance With 5.1 SW And Base license
This is a new installation.I did to configure the ACS to connect to the AD to authenticate users and retrieve the user information for group mapping as following step. Go to Users and Identity Stores > External Identity Stores > Active Directory, and enter the domain name and provide a username/password that will allow connect to the domain.Next, click on the Test Connection button to validate joining the domain. I got success test connection. But when I click Save Changes. I got error .
01. I have one customer unit C1121 ACS system shipped with version 5.1. The customer buy the base license and large deployment license along with the purchase.
02. Fact is i have manually upgrade the system to version 5.3.0.40, and applying a trial license for it for administering the appliance.
a. If i now using the purchased base license and large deployment PAK to activate the system, would it still valid for me to continue using Version 5.3.0.40?
Is it possible to add another NIC to the Cisco 3315 NAC appliance. It ships with Four ethernet interfaces, but would like to add at least 1 extra interface i.e. PCI card if possible.
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'm with problems to migrate the ACS 5.1 hardware to ACS 5.1 vmware. In my infraestructure I have a appliance with ACS 5.1 and I need to migrate to vmware to do HA. I installed vmware as the Cisco ACS recommendations. I made a backup of the ACS hardware and copied the local disk vmware ACS.
When I start the restore process after a few minutes an error occurs:
UMA/admin# dir Directory of disk:/ 33293306 Jun 08 2011 16:51:38 bkp-production-110608-1433.tar.gpg 5862 Nov 07 2009 01:06:32 favicon.ico.1 16384 Jun 06 2011 17:54:34 lost+found/ [Code]....
I am setting up six ISE 3355 appliances 3 in one datacenter 3 in another. They have just installed a new server farm infrastructure using Nexus 5596 and Nexus 2248TP top of rack switches.I have been looking for documentation on how to do NIC teaming on the 3355 or some way to connect Gig0 to FEX101 and Gig1 to FEX102. Or do I just setup a port channel using LaCP between the two different FEX groups?
I'm trying to upload the 5-2-0-26-4.tar.gpg patch to our ACS and so far have been unsucessfull. I keep getting the "please verify the patch bundle is valid".
When I download the 5-2-0-26-4.tar.gpg file, for some reason the download always comes down from Cisco as 5-2-0-26-4.tar.tar. I've renambed the file to 5-2-0-26-4.tar.gpg and verified the MD5.
I have installed 2 ACS 5.2 appliances, the two appear as Primary. When I try to register one of them with the other one using "System Administrator -> Local Operation -> Deployment Operations" I get the following message:
This System Failure occurred: Unable to authenticate with node.. Your changes have not been saved.Click OK to return to the list page.
I have tried with both "ACSAdmin" and "admin" users with their respective passwords.
I have a question. What is the requirement of integrate ACS 4.2 Appliance and AD about CA server? it has to be windows 2003 server enterprice o windows 2008 enterprice? or it can be windows 2003 and 2008 stand alone? another question is about multi domain, i have domain father and children. the installation of CA Server is in domain father to enable 802.1x with AD with all domain children integrate? or I can be install the CA server in the server of domain children and is it work (CA server installed in server in domain child and it working all domains child and father)?
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 acs 5.0 running on Cisco 1120 appliance. It has worked for 2 years. Suddenly, I discovered that user can no longer login with their credentials. On close examination, when I console, the booting does not complete. Screen shot attached.
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.
I've got a problem with Cisco ACS 4.2 authenticating Cisco 4710 ACE appliance.
ACS4.2 has been configured to use both internal and external database. It's been working fine for a couple or years.
Recently we bought a Cisco 4710 ACE appliance. When I use ACS4.2 internal username and password to login the Cisco 4710 ACE appliance, I have no problem. I can also see the passed authentication log on ACS4.2. However, if I use AD username and password, I couldn't login in. The message is "Login incorrect". I checked the failed attempts log on the ACS4.2, there was no log regarding the failed attempt. My AD username and password works fine on all other cisco routers and switches.
I've posted my AAA configuration of the 4710 ACE below. ACE is running on the latest version A4(1.1).
tacacs-server key 7 "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"aaa group server tacacs+ tac_admin server xx.xx.xx.xx
aaa authentication login default group tac_admin local aaa authentication login console group tac_admin local aaa accounting default group tac_admin
i am trying to test EAP_TLS authentication on acs 4.2.1.15 running on Appliance 1120 , I have installed my server certficate along with CA certficate on my appliance box , I have enabled features of EAP_TLS under golbal authentication setup .
I have downloaded client supplicant certficate file for my windows XP machine .When i tried to authenticated i am finding following error message under failed attempts(EAP-TLS or PEAP authentication failed due to unknown CA certificate during SSL handshake) on my acs appliance box .Under certficate revocation list , I have forced my CA as CRL in use . Attached snap shot of all .
Need URL for patch 4.2.1.15.3 with comptaible for cisco acs appliance 1120 . Though its for appliance patch should be along with webserver . I have downloaded patch of SE its not comptaible to this hardware .
I need to move our (secondary instance, version 5-2) ACS server to a different server rack and I have not been able to find a gentle way to shut down the appliance (not the windows version). Does one exist or is it just the power button/cord?
I am running windows based acs 3.3 in my lan environment going to be replaced with acs 1120 appliance running acs 4.2.1.15 , ACS 3.3 database has been built upto 4.2.0.124 ,step by step by upgrade process
now my database is with 4.2.0.124 dmp file , I cannot upgrade my database to 4.2.1.15 because 4.2.1.15 patch is not applicable & executable on 90 days evalution package of 4.2.0.124 of windows platform .
can i import my windows based 4.2.0.124 datbase directly to my acs appliance running 4.2.1.15.3 ??? , else its requires any step to be done to modify the windows based databse matching to appliance windows verison once .
I could see on appliance under restore settings the following options (restore from 4.2.0 backup file to acs 4.2.1)
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.
I need this SSL certficate installation on my acs appliance 1120 for PEAP clients.I have exported SSL server certficate from my old acs 3.3 server which is under acscertstore folder issued by CA vendor . I need to reuse this same SSL certificate on my acs appliance .ACS appliance certficate setup requires following two certificate to be installed for PEAP clients authentication
1) Server Certificate
2) CA certificate
Server Certificate : For server certifcate , I have my old certificate which is exported from my old acs 3.3 server , when i tried to download my server certficate via ftp server on my acs appliance , its looking for private key & private key file .Private key & file is generated intially on CSR request when this server certificate is requested to CA vendor for my old acs 3.3 . I dont know the private key password . If i need private key & file , then i need to generate new CSR from my acs appliance and i need to submit this CSR output to my CA vendor to generate new SSL server certificate .which is something like new server certificate request .CA certficate : For CA certficate , when i open my existing SSL certificate under detials tab in CRL distribution point , i could see below URL . whn i open this URL it giving certificate revocation list . [1]CRL Distribution Point.
I would like to ask, given that i got 2 units of ISE-3315 appliance, one need to be primary node for admin-policy service-monitoring, another unit then become Inline posture node.For the preparation on line posture node, what shoud i do on it?
01. For the unit ready to become inline posture node, so I just boot it, install the OS from sractch (using version 1.1.1), then start the initialize setup etc, like Normal setup?
02. Before i regieter, what is the deployment nodes i should select for inline posture node unit? provided the admin-policy service-monitoring will become primary node, and registration for inline posture node will be next action.
We have had an active ACS unit for many years now, and we've added a second one, both are 1121 Appliances. The newer one came with 5.4, so we upgraded the older one to 5.4.
We setup replication between the two, with the newer one primary and the older one secondary. Problem is, windows based clients are unable to authenticate to the older ACS appliance. The only problem we can see is that it indicates that adclient is not running, under Monitoring & Troubleshooting, ACS Health Instance Summary.
So... been trying to figure out how to correct this, yet have been hard pressed to find a knowledgebase article that works. So far, Cisco hasn't added my smartNet on the new box so I can get some support?
We have an ACE Appliance in a DMZ and the ACE Appliance's Admin Context IP is translated between ACE and ANM. The ANM Server does not get translated. It is just the opposite then in another Community discussion.
Our Problem: When adding the ACE4710 Appliance to the ANM imported Device List, we use the ACE's NATed Admin Context IP. Import works well, but ANM reflects the Admin Context IP with it's real configured IP. Polling the ACE Appliance does not work therefore.
Is there a possibility of telling the ANM, that the ACE has to be polled through a NATed IP? I could not find a field to set a NATed Mgmt IP.
Configured IP on ACE Admin Context: 192.168.0.10 NATed ACE Admin Context IP: 172.16.0.10
Imported ACE with IP 172.16.0.10 into ANM, but ANM polls for Rserver, Vserver, Probes, etc. via 192.168.0.10 - which is not reachable from the ANM.
We're using Cisco Secure ACS 5.2 as a Proxy AAA server, using Active Directory as an External Identity Store. They are already synced and connected and thus I can login into the VPN using my Domain credentials.
But that's not enough. My client needs to limit who can and can't establish VPN session, I mean, the way it is now, EVERY single employee can do that if his/her credentials are valid in the Active Directory domain controller. So I need to do two things:
1) Using the Microsoft NPS server, via dialin attribute, allow or deny VPN sessions using ACS/ASA;
2) Using the company user credential attribute to identify which Authorization Group the requesting user should be in, Downloadable ACLs will then be applied according to the access policies created for each company.
