Gathering Information Required During Installation

During new Cisco ACS installations or any upgrades and reinstallations that don’t preserve the existing configuration, specific information about your Windows server and an AAA client on your network need to be entered. Collect the applicable information before beginning the installation procedure. Upgrades or Cisco Secure ACS reinstallations intended to preserve the existing configuration and database don’t require this information.

To collect information required during the installation of Cisco Secure ACS, follow these steps:

1. For the first AAA client to be configured to use Cisco Secure ACS’s AAA services, determine which AAA protocols and vendor-specific attributes you want to implement.

   • TACACS+ (Cisco IOS)

   • RADIUS (Cisco Aironet)

   • RADIUS (Cisco BBSM)

   • RADIUS (Cisco IOS/PIX)

   • RADIUS (Cisco VPN 3000)

   • RADIUS (Cisco VPN 5000)

   • RADIUS (IETF)

   • RADIUS (Ascend)

   • RADIUS (Juniper)

   • RADIUS (Nortel)

2. Record the name of the AAA client.

3. Record the IP address of the AAA client.

4. Record the Windows 2000/NT server IP address.

5. Record the TACACS+ or RADIUS key (shared secret).