NMC-RX 7.3.x User Guide, Vol. 2 > Configuring Remote Access > Creating Authentication and Accounting Servers

Creating Authentication and Accounting Servers

You can create and configure up to ten authentication and ten accounting servers as part of the RADIUS services. Authentication service determines whether or not a user is allowed access to a specific service or resource. The accounting service tracks service use by subscribers.

If you do not configure a primary authentication or accounting server, all authentication and accounting requests will fail. You can configure other servers as backup in the event that the primary server cannot be reached.

NOTE: You can configure B-RAS with RADIUS accounting without RADIUS authentication. In this configuration, the username and password on the remote end are not authenticated and can be set to any value.

The authentication and accounting servers have the same parameters.

You can perform the following procedure from both the Network Workshop and the Device Workshop.

NOTE: Because the procedure for creating authentication and accounting servers is the same, only authentication servers are used in this example.

To create an authentication server:

1. On the Configuration menu, select Create, and click Authentication Server.

The Create Authentication Server dialog box appears.

2. Set the server's parameters (Table 46).

Setting the parameters allows you to identify an authentication server as a network resource. When you associate a server with a virtual router, you can set parameters that can be specific to that particular virtual router. See Chapter 3, Configuring Virtual Routers.

 Table 46:  Authentication Server Parameters 

 Parameter
 Description

 Server Name        

 Name associated with this server; up to 32 alphanumeric characters


 IP Address    

 Valid IP     address for the server


 UDP Port

 Port where the RADIUS server can be contacted; range 0-65536



 

3. Click OK.