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Select the availability behavior for RADIUS servers. Valid values are: Failover or Load Balance.
AAA Policy supports the ability to load balance RADIUS requests across target servers in a load-
balancing pool. (A minimum of two servers is required.) Each client authentication session
begins and ends on a single RADIUS server. The Extreme Campus Controller validates that each
server can be reached and logs an alert when a server in the pool is unreachable. The server pool
is readjusted based on the status of each server in the pool.
Note
Configure one server for both Accounting and Authentication purposes.
When this setting is set to Failover, a RADIUS request is sent to one server at a time:
The RADIUS request is sent to the Primary server (based on the RADIUS server order in the
AAA policy).
When the Primary server is not accessible, the request is sent to the second server (the
Failover server).
When the Primary server is accessible, the request is automatically sent to the Primary server
instead of the Failover server.
Note
The RADIUS Status message (RFC 5997) indicates if the RADIUS server is
accessible.
When this setting is set to Load Balance, a RADIUS request is sent in round robin fashion:
When a RADIUS server is not accessible, Extreme Campus Controller stops sending requests
to that server.
When a server is accessible, the server is added to the pool of servers.
Note
The RADIUS Status message (RFC 5997) indicates if the RADIUS server is
accessible.
Note
There is no correlation between the RADIUS server that is used for authentication and
the RADIUS server that is used for accounting.
RADIUS Accounting Servers Mode
Determines the server selection mode when accounting packets are sent to a single server.
When the selected accounting server does not respond to the accounting requests, the
accounting packets are sent to the next configured accounting server. The selection applies to all
Services and to all sites on Extreme Campus Controller.
Round-Robin — The server is selected on a round-robin basis starting at the top of the list of
approved servers. The first server is used until it fails, and that pattern continues down the
list. When the last server fails, then the first server is used again.
Broadcast — RADIUS accounting packets are sent to all configured accounting servers in the
AAA Policy.
Configure
AAA Policy — ISE Deploying Centralized Web Authentication
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