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C HAPTER 5 | Monitoring the Switch
Displaying Information About Security Settings
◆ Other Requests –
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802.1X-based: Counts the number of times that the switch sends
an EAP Request packet following the first to the supplicant.
Indicates that the backend server chose an EAP-method.
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MAC-based: Not applicable.
◆ Auth. Successes –
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802.1X- and MAC-based: Counts the number of times that the
switch receives a success indication. Indicates that the supplicant/
client has successfully authenticated to the backend server.
◆ Auth. Failures –
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802.1X- and MAC-based: Counts the number of times that the
switch receives a failure message. This indicates that the
supplicant/client has not authenticated to the backend server.
Transmit Backend Server Counters
◆ Responses –
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802.1X-based: Counts the number of times that the switch
attempts to send a supplicant's first response packet to the backend
server. Indicates the switch attempted communication with the
backend server. Possible retransmissions are not counted.
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MAC-based: Counts all the backend server packets sent from the
switch towards the backend server for a given port (left-most table)
or client (right-most table). Possible retransmissions are not
counted.
Last Supplicant Info
◆ MAC Address – The MAC address of the last supplicant/client.
◆ VLAN ID – The VLAN ID on which the last frame from the last
supplicant/client was received.
◆ Version –
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802.1X-based: The protocol version number carried in the most
recently received EAPOL frame.
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MAC-based: Not applicable.
◆ Identity –
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802.1X-based: The user name (supplicant identity) carried in the
most recently received Response Identity EAPOL frame.
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MAC-based: Not applicable.