

The Cisco Secure security server software supports these features by using either the TACACS+ or RADIUS protocols. The Cisco Secure security server is designed to ensure the security of your network by providing authentication and authorization services and to track the activity of the people who connect to the network by providing feature−rich accounting services. With Cisco Secure ACS, an enterprise can quickly administer accounts and globally change levels of security for entire groups of users.

Cisco Secure ACS offers centralized command and control of all user authentication, authorization, and accounting services via a Web−based, graphical interface.
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Cisco Secure Access Control ServerĬisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) is a scalable, centralized user access control software package for both Unix and Windows NT. This is detailed in Figure 2.7.įigure 2.7: RADIUS accounting process. Finally, the RADIUS security server sends an Accounting−Response packet back to the network access server, acknowledging the receipt of the stop packet. This is considered the Accounting−Stop packet. When the session is complete, the network access server sends another Accounting−Request packet to the RADIUS security server, detailing the delivered service. Because RADIUS implements services using the UDP protocol (which is connectionless oriented), the RADIUS server has the responsibility of acknowledging the Accounting−Request packet with an Accounting−Response packet. This is considered the Accounting−Start packet. It is the network access server's responsibility to send accounting information to the RADIUS server after initial authentication and authorization is complete, and it does so by sending an Accounting−Request packet to the server. The network access server and RADIUS server communicate accounting information between one another on UDP port 1646.

