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Cisco Access Registrar 3.5 Concepts and Reference Guide
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About This Guide
This document provides information to help you understand RADIUS concepts and to help you develop
a better understanding of the Cisco Access Registrar 3.0 server. This document contains the following
chapters:
• Chapter 1, “Overview,” overview of the RADIUS server, including connection steps, RADIUS
message types, and using Cisco Access Registrar as a proxy server.
• Chapter 2, “Understanding Cisco Access Registrar,” describes the Cisco Access Registrar object
structure, and explains when Cisco Access Registrar references each of these objects during the
processing of client requests.
• Chapter 3, “Cisco Access Registrar Scripts,” describes the scripts provided with Cisco Access
Registrar.
• Chapter 4, “Understanding Replication,” describes Cisco Access Registrar's configuration
replication features, functions, limitations and operation.
• Chapter 5, “Understanding SNMP,” provides information about Cisco Access Registrar support for
SNMP.
• Chapter 6, “Prepaid Billing Solution,” describes the generic call flow between the three components
required to support a prepaid billing solution using the RADIUS protocol: the AAA client, the Cisco
Access Registrar 3.0 server, and a prepaid billing server.
This guide also contains a Glossary and an Index.
Obtaining Documentation
The following sections provide sources for obtaining documentation from Cisco Systems.
World Wide Web
You can access the most current Cisco documentation on the World Wide Web at the following sites:
• http://www.cisco.com
• http://www-china.cisco.com
• http://www-europe.cisco.com