Specifications

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Cisco Unity Express Voice-Mail and Auto-Attendant CLI Administrator Guide for 3.0 and Later Versions
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Configuring Authentication, Authorization, and
Accounting
This chapter contains procedures for:
• Configuring the Accounting Server, page 2
• Configuring the Authentication Server, page 4
• Configuring the AAA Policy, page 5
• Configuring Privileges, page 8
• Configuring Accounting Event Logging, page 18
• Configuring Console Authentication, page 21
Overview
Release 7.0 provides a set of new features for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA).
These features expand on the authentication and authorization functionality available in previous
releases, such as determining which user could access restricted services by assigning predefined
privileges to groups.
In release 7.0, you can create new privileges and customize existing privileges and then assign these
privileges to groups as you did in previous releases.
In addition, release 7.0 also includes these new AAA features:
• The ability to log AAA accounting information that enables you to easily audit configuration
changes, maintain security, accurately allocate resources, and determine who should be billed for
the use of resources.
• The ability to use a remote RADIUS server for authentication.
• The ability to configure failover capabilities to for the accounting and authentication servers.
To configure the AAA features, use the following procedures:
• Configuring the Accounting Server, page 2
• Configuring the Authentication Server, page 4
• Configuring the AAA Policy, page 5
• Configuring Privileges, page 8
• Configuring Accounting Event Logging, page 18