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AAA Identity Management Security
Cisco's complete, authoritative guide to Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) solutions with CiscoSecure ACS This is the first complete, authoritative, single-source guide to implementing, configuring, and managing Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) identity management with CiscoSecure Access Control Server (ACS) 4 and 5. Written by three of Cisco's most experienced CiscoSecure product support experts, it covers all AAA solutions (except NAC) on Cisco routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and concentrators. It also thoroughly addresses both ACS configuration and troubleshooting, including the use of external databases supported by ACS. Each of this book's six sections focuses on specific Cisco devices and their AAA configuration with ACS. Each chapter covers configuration syntax and examples, debug outputs with explanations, and ACS screenshots. Drawing on the authors' experience with several thousand support cases in organizations of all kinds, AAA Identity Management Security presents pitfalls, warnings, and tips throughout. Each major topic concludes with a practical, hands-on lab scenario corresponding to a real-life solution that has been widely implemented by Cisco customers. This book brings together crucial information that was previously scattered across multiple sources. It will be indispensable to every professional running CiscoSecure ACS 4 or 5, as well as all candidates for CCSP and CCIE (Security or R and S) certification.
443 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2010
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February 28, 2011
Unfortunately, this book tries to cover both version 4 and version 5 of the ACS software. I say unfortunately, because they're so different from each other, they both deserve their own book.
That being said, this book was far better for learning how to configure version 5 than going through the user guide from Cisco. But it left off with just the basics. I still needed the user guide to show how to configure certain things, and even then, I've had to open TAC cases in order to help with configurations. Hopefully in another year or so, someone else will come out with a book that focuses on just version 5 and helps to clear some of this stuff up.
That being said, this book was far better for learning how to configure version 5 than going through the user guide from Cisco. But it left off with just the basics. I still needed the user guide to show how to configure certain things, and even then, I've had to open TAC cases in order to help with configurations. Hopefully in another year or so, someone else will come out with a book that focuses on just version 5 and helps to clear some of this stuff up.
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