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NAC Feature "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC"

M_Nees — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:29:00 GMT

During playing around (for another huge installation) in my lab NAC, i stumble over the above feature!

RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC ??

Are there any use cases or configuration examples? Current Online Help, NAC Manuals are not helpful.

What is the difference between using "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC" or to configure a out-of-band system (like nagios) in standard "switch section" as regular RADIUS client to test RADIUS requests?

replys are welcome.

RE: NAC Feature "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC"

Erik_Auerswald — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:19:00 GMT

Hello Matthias,

as I understand this feature, it can be used to monitor NAC using e.g. Nagios/Icinga (or Spectrum or ...) with a special account that is valid for monitoring only. This account does not allow network access. This is more secure than using a real user account for monitoring.

Erik

RE: NAC Feature "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC"

Ryan_Yacobucci — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:00:00 GMT

Hello Matthias,

Please see the following help section description for the service:

Any authentication request coming from an IP address that matches the list of RADIUS monitor clients will be authenticated using the password you provided in the AAA mapping. In these cases, the username does not matter. The password configured will not be able to be used for authentication from any other part of the network. The Access Control engine responds back with a basic accept to any RADIUS monitor client’s RADIUS request.

Thanks
-Ryan

RE: NAC Feature "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC"

M_Nees — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:21:00 GMT

Hi James,

this makes sense and explained why the netsight programmer adding this GUI option.

This feature was added in Netsight 6.2:
Ability to configure RADIUS monitoring tools to monitor NAC appliance performance and availability.

Regards

RE: NAC Feature "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC"

M_Nees — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:59:00 GMT

I though a little deeper to use this feature on some customer installations ...

i will try to use not just a password for authentication but rather a user account which resides in the backend Active Directory, so with this i can check the whole Authentication process within NAC backend connectivity.
(i hope this will work)

Regards,
Matthias

RE: NAC Feature "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC"

Peter_Chang — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:18:00 GMT

I'd like to use this feature to monitor our NACs. What kind of scripts are you using? Are you utilizing your checks with Nagios/Icinga?

Regards,
Peter

RE: NAC Feature "RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC"

AntonS — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:55:00 GMT

Hy,
I know this is a very old thread, but it fits best to my question.

Does anyone know where to update the “Radius Monitor Clients” from new Oneview GUI?

Could not find it, and had to open the java gui.

Anton