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Chapter 4 Configuring Devices
Configuring the Service Engine
The Login Authentication page allows you to choose an external access server or the internal (local)
device-based authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) system for user access management.
You can choose one method or a combination of the two methods. The default is to use the local database
for authentication.
Configuring a RADlUS Server
Note The CDSM does not cache user authentication information. Therefore, the user is reauthenticated against
the RADIUS server for every request. To prevent performance degradation caused by many
authentication requests, install the CDSM in the same location as the RADIUS server, or as close as
possible to it, to ensure that authentication requests can occur as quickly as possible.
To configure the RADIUS server settings, do the following:
Step 1 Choose Devices > Devices > General Settings > Authentication > RADIUS Server. The RADIUS
Server Settings page is displayed.
Step 2 Enter the settings as appropriate. See Table 4-25 for a description of the fields.
Step 3 Click Submit to save the settings.
Table 4-25 RADIUS Server Settings Fields
Field Description
Enable RADIUS
Servers
Enables RADIUS authentication.
Time to wait Number of seconds to wait for a response before timing out on a connection to
a RADIUS server. The range is from 1 to 20. The default is 5.
Number of
retransmits
Number of attempts allowed to connect to a RADIUS server. The default is 2.
Enable redirect Redirects an authentication response to a different authentication server if an
authentication request using the RADIUS server fails.
Redirect Message
[1-3]
Message sent to the user if redirection occurs.
Note If the redirect message has a space, it must be in quotes (" ").
Location [1-3] Sets an HTML page location. This is the URL destination of the redirect
message that is sent when authentication fails.
Shared Encryption
Key
Encryption key shared with the RADIUS server.
Server Name [1-5] IP address or hostname of the RADIUS server.
Server Port [1-5] Port number on which the RADIUS server is listening.