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AAA enables the security appliance to determine who the user is (authentication), what the user can do (authorization), and what the user did (accounting). Cisco XNC uses Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) or Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) to communicate with a AAA server.
Remote authentication and authorization is supported using the AAA server. For each user to be authenticated, Cisco XNC uses both the login credentials and an attribute-value (AV) pair that assigns the authorized role for the user is configured as part of the user administration. After successful authentication, the Cisco AV pair is returned to Cisco XNC for resource access authorization.
Step 1 | On the Admin drop-down list, choose AAA. |
Step 2 | In the AAA Configuration dialog box, click a Server Address. |
Step 3 | After viewing the server information in the Remove AAA Configuration dialog box, click Close. |
Step 4 | In the AAA Configuration dialog box, click Close. |
Step 1 | On the Admin drop-down list, choose AAA. |
Step 2 | In the AAA Configuration dialog box, click a Server Address. |
Step 3 | In the Remove AAA Configuration dialog box, click Remove. |
Step 4 | In the AAA Configuration dialog box, click Close. |
Cisco XNC uses users and roles to manage user access. You can assign more than one role to a user. This can be one of the following:
Each user is assigned a role, which determines the permissions that they have. Slice users are assigned to both a role and a slice. The Admin user with the Network Administrator role is created by default when you install Cisco XNC.
Step 1 | On the Admin drop-down list, choose Users. |
Step 2 | In the User Management dialog box you can do the following: |
Step 3 | When you are finished, click Close. |
After creating a user, you can change the password, but you cannot change the roles assigned to the user.
Step 1 | On the Admin drop-down list, choose Users. | ||||||||||||||||
Step 2 | In the User Management dialog box, click Add User. | ||||||||||||||||
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In the Add User dialog box, complete the following fields:
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Step 4 | Click Add User. | ||||||||||||||||
Step 5 | In the User Management dialog box, click Close. |
Step 1 | On the Admin drop-down list, choose Users. |
Step 2 | In the User Management dialog box, click on the user that you want to modify. |
Step 3 | In the Edit User dialog box, click Change Password. |
Step 4 | In the Change Password dialog box, enter the new password and then enter it a second time to verify. |
Step 5 | Click Submit. |
Step 6 | In the User Management dialog box, click Close. |
If you are signed in as a particular user, you cannot delete that user.
Step 1 | On the Admin drop-down list, choose Users. |
Step 2 | In the User Management dialog box, click on the user that you want to modify. |
Step 3 | In the Edit User dialog box, click Remove User. |
Step 4 | In the User Management dialog box, click Close. |
Note |
The cluster management dialog boxes are read-only. |
You must have configured high availability clustering in order to view the cluster management information. See the Cisco Extensible Network Controller Deployment Guide.
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On the Admin drop-down list, choose Clusters. The Cluster Management dialog box lists the IP addresses of all of the Cisco XNC instances in the cluster. Clusters can be denoted by one of the following icons: |
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In the Cluster Management dialog box, choose a cluster. The Connected Nodes dialog box lists all of the nodes in the selected cluster. |
Step 3 | In the Connected Nodes dialog box, click Close. |
Step 4 | In the Cluster Management dialog box, click Close. |