Cisco Access Control Security: AAA Administration Services

This book is focused on providing the skills necessary to successfully configure authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services on Cisco devices using external authentication servers such as Cisco Secure Access Control Server and the Cisco Access Registrar. The goals of this book are as follows:

• Provide a general overview of the AAA architecture

• Provide a general configuration overview of AAA on Cisco routers

• Provide detailed discussion on the TACACS+ and RADIUS protocols

• Provide installation and configuration examples and explanations for the Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS)

• Provide installation and configuration examples and explanations for the Cisco CNS Access Registrar (AR)