ACE Module Radius with ACS 4.2

Hi,
I am able to authenticate to my ACE modules via Radius, but when I login it does not give my Admin rights. Does anyone have a fix for this? My ACS admin has been working with TAC since last week to no avail.
John...

You have to use a custom AV pair on TACACS server under user setup to make it work. ACE uses RBAC (role based Access Control) and for that you have to pass the context and User Role from Tacacs server to ACE to make it work.If there is no RBAC info is pushed from Tacacs server and user just get authenticated then the default role assigned by ACE is Network-Monitor.
Following steps (On tacacs server) will make it work
1. Select your user
2. goto tacas+ settings
3. Select " shell (exec)" checkbox
4. Select "custom attributes" checkbox
5. Type your context and role information in custom attrib box, using following format
shell:*
for e.g (if context name is Admin, domain is default-domain and you want to assign role "Admin" to this user )
shell:Admin*Admin default-domain
Hope it helps
Syed

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Hi,
I've got a problem with the ACS 5.1 RADIUS Authentication for Nortel network devices (Baystack 470, ERS 5530 5510, Passport 8606).
After configuring RADIUS on these device (primary serv, secondary serv, secret key, port...) and adding them to my ACS Servers.
I can't manage to login using RADIUS and i get the following message.
"Permission denied, please try again" or "No response from RADIUS server"(?) (depending on the device type)
But in my ACS View, I can see : "Authentication succeeded."
I've also checked the RADIUS frames, the "Access-Request" and "Access-Accept" are correctly transmitted.
I've got no problems with RADIUS Auth using other brand devices
Is there any known issues with Nortels devices using Cisco ACS 5.1 with RADIUS Authentication ?
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Are you sure that setting up a compound condition will help ?
To me, the RADIUS Nortel VSA are used for Authorization,and my problem is about Authentication (usually for a simple authentication, we stay in the IETF RADIUS Standards ? no ?)
Also, does setting this condition will change the Access-Accept packets sent by the ACS to the device ?
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11001 Received RADIUS Access-Request
11017 RADIUS created a new session
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15012 Selected Access Service - Default Network Access
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ACE Module throughput

Hi
In the Datashhet of the ACE-Module (ACE20-MOD-K9) there is the following promise:
Throughput
16 Gbps*, 8 Gbps*, and 4 Gbps
We have a base license, so I assume we have a throughput of 4Gbps (gigabits per second).
Are these 4Gbps bidirectional or unidirectional?
Is it 2Gbps in one direction and 2Gbps in the other direction?
Imagine we have just 1 host (A) before the ACE module and just 1 host (B) behind the ACE module. Can I transfer data from A to B (unidirectional) with 4Gbps? Assume the hosts are connected with 10Gbps to the network and use multiple flows!
How can I measure the effective used bandwith on the ACE module?
What hapens, if host A tries to send data faster than 4Gbps? Does it deny single packets? Base on what? Does it deny additional sessions?
How do I know that the ACE runs at it's bandwith limitation?
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Hi Patrik,
See my answers inline:
We have a base license, so I assume we have a throughput of 4Gbps (gigabits per second).Are these 4Gbps bidirectional or unidirectional?Is it 2Gbps in one direction and 2Gbps in the other direction?
It measures the total throughput going through the box. It includes both directions. Also take into account that, for any traffic through the ACE, the packets are seen twice (client to ACE and ACE to server), so the effective throughput is half of the licensed one.
Imagine we have just 1 host (A) before the ACE module and just 1 host (B) behind the ACE module. Can I transfer data from A to B (unidirectional) with 4Gbps? Assume the hosts are connected with 10Gbps to the network and use multiple flows!
You could get up to 2Gbps unidirectional. This traffic will go through the ACE twice, adding to the 4Gbps license
How can I measure the effective used bandwith on the ACE module?
With the "show resource usage" command
What hapens, if host A tries to send data faster than 4Gbps? Does it deny single packets? Base on what? Does it deny additional sessions?
It will drop packets that go over the bandwidth without taking into account to which connection they belong
How do I know that the ACE runs at it's bandwith limitation?
Again, "show resource usage"
Regards
Daniel

ACS support for ACE Module

Does ACS for Windows 3.3 support AAA for the ACE module?

I don't think that is correct. I am still
having issues with ACE and ACS. See below:
ACE version Software
loader: Version 0.95
system: Version A1(7b) [build 3.0(0)A1(7b)
Cisco ACS version 4.0.1
I am trying to authenticate admin users with AAA authentication for ACE management.
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warning: numeric key will not be encrypted
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TACACS+ server name
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A problem with ACL in the class-map on the ACE module

Hi all,
I configured the following on the ACE module:
object-group network test
host 192.168.1.21
host 192.168.1.22
host 192.168.1.23
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Roman

Hi Roman,
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Regards
Daniel

Ace module in bridged mode with client nat

Could someone confirm whatever a NAT is supported for ACE-20 module, please?
Let me to explain technical details.
I do need to convert working CSM(SLB) config to ACE configuration and I am not quite sure
if the configuration below is correct. ACE module should be configured in bridge mode with two
vlans - vlan 36 (client) and vlan 436 (server) - bridged with interface bvi 36.
NAT on ACE configurad as "nat dynamic 1025 vlan 436" into corresponding
"policy-map type loadbalance"
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properly converted from CSM and will be working in the same way (especialy for NAT).
Thank you in advance.
CSM config
=======
vlan 36 client
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gateway 10.36.3.1
vlan 436 server
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port 443
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real 10.36.3.102 80
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ACE config
=======
probe tcp WEBMAIL-443
interval 5
open 2
passdetect interval 60
port 443
probe tcp SHAREPOINT
interval 30
open 3
passdetect interval 120
port 80
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predictor leastconns
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rserver 10-36-3-101 443
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rserver 10-36-3-102 443
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serverfarm host WEBMAIL-80
predictor leastconns
probe SHAREPOINT
rserver 10-36-3-101 80
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rserver 10-36-3-102 80
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match virtual-address 10.36.3.100 tcp eq www
class-map match-all WEBMAIL-443
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serverfarm WEBMAIL-443
replicate sticky
timeout 60
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parameter-map type http HTTP_ADV_OPT
persistence-rebalance
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mac-sticky enable
no shutdown
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no shutdown
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peer ip address 10.36.3.4 255.255.255.0
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Hello F.Makarenko-
You will want to use PAT while you do nat, so change the natpool configuration to this:
   nat-pool 1025 10.36.3.100 10.36.3.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 pat
You also need to apply the nat like this:
policy-map multi-match IFVLAN36-POLICY
class WEBMAIL-80
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class WEBMAIL-443
    appl-parameter http advanced-options HTTP_ADV_OPT
    loadbalance policy WEBMAIL-443
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply active
    nat dynamic 1025 vlan 436
If you are going to build out a lot of classes, you can instead do source nat like this:
policy-map multi-match IFVLAN36-POLICY
class WEBMAIL-80
    appl-parameter http advanced-options HTTP_ADV_OPT
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    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply active
class WEBMAIL-443
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    loadbalance policy WEBMAIL-443
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply active
class class-default
    nat dynamic 1025 vlan 436
Regards,
Chris Higgins

Simple SLB with the ACE Module

Hello,
i have some problems with a ACE module i am currently tesing.
I have a simple Serverfarm with two Servers.
But there seems to be some Problems with the Loadbalancing i not understand:
1) I use Round Robin, but the ACE seems to put me serval times to the same server. I notice this, because i have different content on both servers, also different URLs.
2) withz the show serverfarm statement the total connects do not increment.
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serverfarm : webfarm, type: HOST
total rservers : 2
----------connections-----------
real weight state current total
---+---------------------+------+------------+----------+--------------------
rserver: web1
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loadbalance:
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VIP Route Metric : 77
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Monitoring the Cisco ACE module with SNMP

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Cisco ACE Module with Bluecoat Cache Proxy, Transparent and spoofing client IP

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The primary goal is to loadbalance 2 webservers with a new vip, new serverfarm, stickygroup, policy-map and different nat-pool.
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passdetect count 1
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description content server logon 2
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rserver host cwi504
description content server logon 2
ip address 10.163.22.24
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probe WEBGUI_D2
rserver cwi003 80
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rserver cwi004 80
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serverfarm host SF_LOGON2_D2
probe WEBGUI_D2
rserver cwi503 80
   inservice
rserver cwi504 80
   inservice
sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.255 address source STICKYGROUP1
timeout 20
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serverfarm SF_LOGON_D2
serverfarm SF_LOGON2_D2
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3 match virtual-address 10.163.22.13 any
class-map match-all VS_LOGON2_D2
3 match virtual-address 10.163.22.xx any
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   loadbalance policy PM_ONE_ARM_LB
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interface vlan 1240
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ip address 10.163.22.11 255.255.255.0
peer ip address 10.163.22.12 255.255.255.0
access-group input INBOUND
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nat-pool 6 10.163.22.xx 10.163.22.xx netmask 255.255.255.192 pat
service-policy input PM_ONE_ARM_MULTI_MATCH
no shutdown
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.163.22.1
BR
Geir

Thanks for your reply.
Hope I understand you correct. This sould be the config I need to paste into the existing context.
rserver host cwi503
description content server logon 2
ip address 10.163.22.23
inservice
rserver host cwi504
description content server logon 2
ip address 10.163.22.24
inservice
serverfarm host SF_LOGON2_D2
probe WEBGUI_D2
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    inservice
rserver cwi504 80
    inservice
sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.255 address source STICKYGROUP2
   timeout 20
   replicate sticky
   serverfarm SF_LOGON2_D2
class-map match-all VS_LOGON2_D2
   3 match virtual-address 10.163.22.xx any
policy-map type loadbalance first-match PM_ONE_ARM_LB2
class class-default
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policy-map multi-match PM_ONE_ARM_MULTI_MATCH
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    nat dynamic 6 vlan 1240
interface vlan 1240
nat-pool 6 10.163.22.xx 10.163.22.xx netmask 255.255.255.192 pat
Br
Geir

ACE module - Qos - set ip tos #

All,
Trying to mark traffic to/from L4 rules in the ACE.
Documentation (like always) says it's really easy. Mark traffic by using the "set ip tos <value>" command in Policy/Class configuration. Ok, so I do this, set ip tos 24.
Enable qos globally on the 6500 host, but don't see the traffic being marked.
sh mls qos says that packets are being modified by module 5 (ACE)
But I never see the tos value in any of my captures either via netflow from the host 6500, or at the firewall one hop away.
sh mls qos:
QoS is enabled globally
Policy marking depends on port_trust
QoS ip packet dscp rewrite enabled globally
Input mode for GRE Tunnel is Pipe mode
Input mode for MPLS is Pipe mode
QoS Trust state is CoS on the following interface:
Te3/1
QoS Trust state is DSCP on the following interface:
Gi2/3
Vlan or Portchannel(Multi-Earl) policies supported: Yes
Egress policies supported: Yes
----- Module [5] -----
QoS global counters:
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    IP shortcut packets: 0
    Packets dropped by policing: 0
    IP packets with TOS changed by policing: 2663386
    IP packets with COS changed by policing: 4889352
    Non-IP packets with COS changed by policing: 0
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Can someone explain to me what I've got wrong here? Is the ACE simply marking traffic destined for the servers behind it and not the return traffic? Am I missunderstanding something?

Well... hopefully someone knows how to classify traffic coming from the ACE.
I've given up on using the ACE to mark traffic as I'm fairly certain it won't do it. At least not the way I want.
However, now I've taken to marking ingress on the rserver switch ports... which has resulted in a partially sucessful solution. Problem is, "partially" successful.
You'll have a bunch of little conversations like this with no tos value full of push-acks:
10:29:53.527526 207.161.222.68.2828 > 205.200.114.228.http: P 2954:3455(501) ack 203152 win 65535 (DF)
10:29:53.527698 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . ack 3455 win 32267
10:29:53.555271 207.161.222.68.2828 > 205.200.114.228.http: P 3455:3686(231) ack 203152 win 65535 (DF)
10:29:53.562676 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: P 203152:203784(632) ack 3686 win 32768
10:29:53.674758 207.161.222.68.2828 > 205.200.114.228.http: P 3686:4036(350) ack 203784 win 64903 (DF)
10:29:53.690853 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: P 203784:205244(1460) ack 4036 win 32768
10:29:53.690863 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: P 205244:206704(1460) ack 4036 win 32768
10:29:53.690871 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: P 206704:208164(1460) ack 4036 win 32768
10:29:53.690879 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: P 208164:209624(1460) ack 4036 win 32768
10:29:53.690887 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: P 209624:211084(1460) ack 4036 win 32768
10:29:53.690895 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: P 211084:212544(1460) ack 4036 win 32768
But then you'll see another conversation pop up with the correct markings
10:31:53.845287 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 32753:34213(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
10:31:53.845298 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 34213:35673(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
10:31:53.845306 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 35673:37133(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
10:31:53.845313 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 37133:38593(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
10:31:53.845321 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 38593:40053(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
10:31:53.845328 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 40053:41513(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
10:31:53.845335 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 41513:42973(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
10:31:53.845343 205.200.114.228.http > 207.161.222.68.2828: . 42973:44433(1460) ack 1082 win 62808 (DF) [tos 0x48]
I think what's happening, is that the conversations full of the P-acks is the load balancer communicating directly with the client (i.e. LB pretending to be the server), whereas the marked traffic is "data only" which the load balancer isn't mangling (like it might/probably is doing with the p-acks) on it's way back to the client.
I also can't modify the configuration of the "virtual ten gig" interface that the 6500 uses as a connection to the ACE module, so can't mark traffic there either. And though I still have a couple of things to try, I don't believe I can do egress marking on a trunk from the 6500 either (connection to the firewalls).
So.... PLEASE... Anyone??? Ideas???

ACE Module Radius with ACS 4.2

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