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HP-UX AAA Server A.06.01 Getting Started Guide: HP-UX 11.0, 11i v1, 11i v2 > Chapter 1 Introduction to AAA Server

HP-UX AAA Server Features

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General Features

  • Compliant with RADIUS protocol RFC 2865 and 2866 standards

  • Supports multiple vendor NASs with a single server (multi-vendor dictionary that includes Nortel®, Cisco®, Lucent®, and others)

  • Configurable dictionary that allows the definition of new vendors and vendor-specific attributes and values

  • Dictionary includes attributes from RFCs 2865, 2866, 2867, 2868, and 2869

  • Vendor-specific attribute translation

  • Configurable attribute-value pruning behavior (based on dictionary and clients file definitions)

  • Various configurable (through aaa.config) internal queue and buffer sizes

  • Persistent user session table and automatic recovery of session information after a server reload occurs

  • Engine support of loadable plug-in modules

Authentication Features

  • Distributed authentication (proxy) by realms (RADIUS type authentication)

  • Support for PAP authentication protocol by all supported authentication types

  • Support for CHAP (clear text password required in the user profile)

  • Support for MS-CHAP

  • Support for EAP authentication for wireless LAN access points and switches (including EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, EAP-GTC, and EAP-LEAP)

  • Authentication of users with profiles defined in a flat text file that the server loads into memory (clear text or UNIX-style encrypted passwords)

  • Authentication of users defined in a /etc/passwd file

  • Authentication using multiple sets of user definition and realm definition files (users and authfile files) keyed by network access server (NAS)

  • Supports multiple user definition (realm) files keyed by realm (File type authentication)

  • Authentication of users defined in an LDAP server (ProLDAP™ type authentication), including support of {clear} indicator for clear text passwords

  • Authentication of users defined in an ORACLE database

  • UNIX bigcrypt() for users defined in a flat file or LDAP directory

  • Load balancing and failover when authenticating users stored in an LDAP directory server or Oracle database

Authorization Features

  • Support of simple authorization policy through check and deny attribute-value pair items specified in users files

  • Support for definition of reply item attribute-value pairs in a users file

  • Support of simple authorization policy through check and deny attribute-value pair items specified in realm files (File type authentication) or an LDAP directory server (ProLDAP type authentication)

  • Support for definition of reply item attribute-value pairs through realm files, an LDAP directory server, or an Oracle database

  • Support of complex authorization policy construction through Boolean expressions with attribute-value pair operands

  • Supports simultaneous session limitation by user and by realm

Accounting Features

  • Generates Merit or Livingston reference accounting detail files (accounting start and stop RADIUS messages from network access server (NAS)), known as call detail records (CDR)

  • Supports distributed accounting (proxy) by realms (RADIUS type authentication)

Admin and Debug Tools/Features

  • Server Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI) for managing multiple AAA servers

  • 802.1x Advisor HTML help system to quickly secure WLANs with the HP-UX AAA Server

  • DHCP interface for the AAA Server to assign IP addresses generated by a DHCP server

  • Support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

  • “Self-signed” AAA Server digital certificates created during installation allow for a secured TLS, TTLS, and PEAP environment without having to generate your own certificates

  • Generates server activity logfiles, compressed daily

  • Optional debug levels for greater server log output to help debug problems

  • Packaged with a RADIUS protocol client (radpwtst) for testing and debugging

  • Packaged with a utility, (radcheck), to check status of server.

  • Script (las.test.sh) tests simultaneous session control to aid in performance of session testing of the server

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