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User Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control Server
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Chapter 3 Network Configuration
Configuring Remote Agents (ACS Solution Engine Only)
This section contains the following topics:
• About Remote Agents, page 3-19
• Remote Agent Configuration Options, page 3-19
• Adding a Remote Agent, page 3-20
• Editing a Remote Agent Configuration, page 3-21
• Deleting a Remote Agent Configuration, page 3-22
About Remote Agents
An ACS Solution Engine can use remote agents for remote logging and authentication of users with a
Windows external user database. Before you can configure remote logging and authentication by using
a Windows external user database, you must add at least one remote agent configuration to the Remote
Agents table in the Network Configuration section.
For more information about remote agents, including how to install and configure them, see the
Installation Guide for Cisco Secure ACS Solution Engine Release 4.1.
Remote Agent Configuration Options
The Add Remote Agent and Remote Agent Setup pages include the following options:
Note A remote agent that doesnot have a corresponding configuration in ACS, or whose configuration
in ACS is incorrect, cannot communicate with ACS to receive its configuration, logging data, or
Windows authentication requests.
• Remote Agent Name—The name that you assign to the remote agent configuration. You configure
remote agent logging and Windows authentication by using remote agent names. We recommend
that you adopt a descriptive, consistent naming convention for remote agents. For example, you
could assign the same name as the hostname of the server that runs the remote agent. The maximum
length for a remote agent name is 32 characters.
Note After you submit the remote agent name, you cannot change it. If you want to use a different
name for a remote agent, delete the remote agent configuration, create a new remote agent
configuration by using the new name, and change remote logging and Windows
authentication configurations that use the remote agent.
• Remote Agent IP Address—The IP address of the remote agent, in dotted-decimal format. For
example, 10.77.234.3.
• Remote Agent Port—The TCP port on which the remote agent listens for communication from
ACS. The maximum length for the TCP port number is 6 characters. The Remote Agent Port must
be a numeric value in the range of 0 to 65535.