Product Overview

The HP-UX AAA Server utilizes the industry standard Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol to provide user-based authentication, authorization and accounting of network access. At the network entry point, the HP-UX AAA Server provides:

Authentication for network access devices
Authorization of user access
Accounting log files that can be utilized by billing and accounting applications

The HP-UX AAA Server supports RADIUS and EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) over RADIUS compliant devices including:

Network Access Servers (NAS)
LAN switches *
LAN hubs *
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access points *
NOTE: * Device must be RADIUS/EAP enabled.

The HP-UX AAA Server supports Merit (default) and Livingston accounting style formats to ensure interoperability with a wide variety of billing and mediation applications.

You can store account information for users accessing the network through the HP-UX AAA Server in any of the following repositories:

Local AAA server configuration files
LDAP version 3 compliant directories **
Oracle databases-
- Oracle version 8.1.7 or higher databases on HP-UX 11i v1, and HP-UX 11i v2 systems running on PA-RISC architecture
- Oracle version 9i databases on HP-UX 11i v2 running on Itanium architecture




	NOTE: ** The HP-UX AAA server offers support for authentication request load balancing and failover

Product Features

The HP-UX AAA Server includes the following features:

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) support for centralized administration of IP Address assignment
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support for effective management
Web-based administration with the Server Manager graphic user interface
Session management capabilities
A full suite of support utilities
Improved performance (over two times the throughput of HP-UX AAA Server A.06.01.05 for some deployments. Actual performance may vary, based on specific features used). These performance enhancements also provide more consistent response times under heavy load, and require less performance tuning of the HP-UX AAA Server to achieve optimal performance.
Support for IPv6 networks (sending and receiving messages over IPv6) - HP-UX 11i v2 only
Support for RFC 3162 (RADIUS and IPv6) - HP-11i v1 and 11i v2.

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