CiscoSecure ACS 4.1 for Windows Redundant Licensing

If I require a second server in stand by mode for redundancy do I require 2 x CSACS-4.1-WIN-K9 or is there a a standy licence for the Cisco Secure ACS

He means, do you have to buy a second copy at full price, or is their a way to get it at reduced price if its going to run as a backup.
To answer your question -- to remain legal you have to buy a second copy. We went through this about a year ago, and what it comes down to is Cisco wants you to buy another copy of it. Ridiculous in my opinion. However, having only one ACS server was an unacceptable risk in my opinion as it was controlling so much stuff now and we could not afford for it to go down..
Brian

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We still have two ancient instances of CiscoSecure ACS v2.4 for Windows NT running on our network. ACS1 (primary) and ACS2 (secondary). I would like to upgrade these, not only because of how old they are but because of an issue trying to replicate the user and group database from ACS1 to ACS2. When trying to replicate the user and group database the logs say it's successful but the databases don't match. ACS2 is missing some of the users that are in ACS1. I have successfully replicated the interface database. But for whatever reason, the user and group database will not replicate.
First, is there any other way I can get the user and group database copied from ACS1 to ACS2? Other than using the built in database replication tool?
Second, is there any way I can get these upgraded? I read that the recommended upgrade path is 2.4->2.6->3.0->3.2. But Cisco no longer has version 2.6 available for download. I really would like to upgrade rather than starting from scratch.
Thanks!

ACS 2.4 - wow! That hasn't been sold for over 11 years. (reference)
Think about it - would you want to try to upgrade Windows 98 to Windows 7? That's about an equivalent span of software product timeline.
The current product is so different that even if you could upgrade it would not be advisable to do so. While painful, it would be much better option to make a clean break with the old and move onto a current platform (e.g ACS 5.3).

Configuring Tacacs+ using CiscoSecure ACS 4.2 on Windows

I have installed CiscoSecure ACS 4.2 on Windows.
Can anyone help me setting up the server for Tacacs+.
I am new to Tacacs+.
I have to deploy Tacacs+ on almost 50 switches.

i changed device to be cisco 3650 , also i changed network so now ACS and cisco device are in same network 192.168.253.0/24
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Date Time Message-Type User-Name Group-Name Caller-ID Network Access Profile Name Authen-Failure-Code Author-Failure-Code Author-Data NAS-Port NAS-IP-Address Filter Information PEAP/EAP-FAST-Clear-Name EAP Type EAP Type Name Reason Access Device Network Device Group
10/10/2014 05:06:06 Authen failed vlada22 Default Group 172.21.1.6 (Default) Users Access Filtered .. .. tty1 192.168.253.25 No Access Filters Passed. .. .. .. .. test123 ..
10/10/2014 05:06:26 Authen failed vlada22 Default Group 172.21.1.6 (Default) Users Access Filtered .. .. tty1 192.168.253.25 No Access Filters Passed. .. .. .. .. test123 ..
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*Mar 1 00:23:16.711: AAA/ACCT/EXEC(00000004): Pick method list 'default'
*Mar 1 00:23:16.711: AAA/ACCT/SETMLIST(00000004): Handle 0, mlist 05600CB0, Name default
*Mar 1 00:23:16.711: Getting session id for EXEC(00000004) : db=535F824
*Mar 1 00:23:16.711: AAA/ACCT/EXEC(00000004): add, count 2
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*Mar 1 00:23:16.711: AAA/ACCT/EXEC(00000004): Accounting record not sent
*Mar 1 00:23:16.711: AAA/ACCT/EXEC(00000004): free_rec, count 1
*Mar 1
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*Mar 1 00:23:18.716: AAA/ACCT/CALL STOP(00000004): Sending stop requests
*Mar 1 00:23:18.716: AAA/ACCT(00000004): Send all stops
*Mar 1 00:23:18.716: AAA/ACCT/NET(00000004): STOP
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sw1_EX-3560LabRS-B#8.716: AAA/ACCT(00000004): del node, session 3
*Mar 1 00:23:18.716: AAA/ACCT/NET(00000004): free_rec, count 0
*Mar 1 00:23:18.716: AAA/ACCT/NET(00000004) reccnt 0, csr TRUE, osr 0
*Mar 1 00:23:18.716: AAA/ACCT/NET(00000004): Last rec in db, intf not enqueued
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CA and Certificate Issue in ACS 4.0 For Windows 2003 Enterprise Server

Hi,
I have configured Microsoft CA server on the same ACS 4.0 for Windows 2003 enterprise server which was configured earlier using the self generated certificates for EAP and PEAP authentications.
After I change the certificate from self generated to the new CA certificate that can be viewed under install ACS certificate option on ACS server but having the following problems
1. SSL is not functioning while internet browser access to the ACS server and going through http instead of https.
2. Wireless clients are authenticated successfully even after the certificate is uninstalled.
Any help on these problems will be appreciated.
Thanks
Best Regards,
Ahmed

Hi Rohit,
Thanks for reminding the HTTPS option under Administration Control on ACS.
I have some doubts pertaining to installation of certificates on Wireless clients though it is optional for Self Generated Certificates but what in case of Mirosoft CA as I tested wireless client authentications even after removing the certificate from microsoft supplicant WindowsXP SP2 having installed the patch KB885453 for PEAP. How the certificate on wireless client works.
Is it mandatory or optional to keep certificate on Wireless Clients as they could able to get authenticated through ACS after removing the certificate.
Thanks
Best Regards,
Ahmed

ACS 3.2 for Windows and MS Windows AD Directory Integration Problem

Dear all,
We have some issues while integrating Windows AD with ACS 3.2 for Windows.Currently we have done the following:
1. Installed ACS 3.2 for Windows on Windows 2003 Enterprise with SP1
2. ACS and Domain Controller are configured on the same server
Checked and verified the following configurations
1. created a domain user "csacs" selected Act as a part of operating system and log on as a service enabled for this user.
2. Enabled all the CS services to log on as a user csacs.
But I noticed CS services are not respdonding and gives the error as "Could not able to start the service with service specific error ..." while trying to start services manually on ACS.
Kindly help me through this integration part
An easy and handy Step wise procedure on configuring integration of AD with ACS 3.2 on both Domain Controller and on Member server will be of great help.
Thanks
Kind Regards,
Ahmed

I have no issues running Cisco ACS version 3.2 on Windows
Server 2003 with SP2:
1) create user test1 in MS Active Directory and put test1
in users group with dial-in access granted,
3) Create a group called "LDAP". Actually I renamed
group name "group 1" to "LDAP".
3) in ACS external user database configuration, I specified
domain "CCIE" as for this. unknow user policy is to use
Windows Database configuration,
4) Configure the database configuration in ACS to point
to "CCIE" windows domain,
5) setup the ACS to authenticate one of your Cisco devices
and log in using the MS windows account,
By the way, mgurwara, you are wrong. I run Cisco
ACS 3.2 on windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service
Pack 2. I am running it on a Dell Optiplex Gx240
(1.7 GHz with 512MB of RAM) and it is running fine.
I use it to manage about 20 cisco devices and
about 200 Wireless LEAP user(s). Furthermore, I am also
running ACS 4.1 on another identical hardware. It has
nothing to do with the hardware. I don't know where
you get that information from.

Advice for Buying Cisco Secure ACS 3.3 for Windows

Just need advice on what other things I NEED to order apart from the Windows server when I want to iplement ACS and I want to use CISCO SECURE ACS 3.3 FOR WINDOWS
Hope someone will help

Hi,
This is all what you require:
Supported Operating System
Cisco Secure ACS for Windows Servers 3.3 supports the Windows operating systems listed below. Both the operating system and the service pack must be English-language versions.
Windows 2000 Server, with Service Pack 4 installed
Windows 2000 Advanced Server, with the following conditions:
with Service Pack 4 installed
without features specific to Windows 2000 Advanced Server enabled
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
Note The following restrictions apply to support for Microsoft Windows operating systems:
We have not tested and cannot support the multi-processor feature of any supported operating system.
We cannot support Microsoft clustering service on any supported operating system.
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is not a supported operating system.
Please refer to the following link for more information:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_soft/csacs4nt/acs33/win33sdt.htm
Thanx & Regards

Delete proxy config on Cisco Secure ACS 4.1 for Windows ?

We have a pair of ACS 4.1 servers (Windows Server 2003 R2). Let's call them ACS1 and ACS2.
We don't want either one of them to proxy to any AAA server, including each other. We're using mostly TACACS authentication.
While troubleshooting a general problem, I'm guessing that one of us did this on ACS1:
pressed the Network Configuration button,
saw the Proxy Distribution Table
clicked (Default)
moved ACS1 from the AAA Servers column to the Forward To column.
So, essentially, we're telling ACS1 to proxy all requests to itself, which doesn't seem to make sense. I don't know for sure whether it should work when configured to "self proxy," but in that state, it does not authenticate anyone and gives merely "Internal error" as the reason.
If I change the configuration so that "ACS2" appears in the Forward To column, and I move "ACS1" back to AAA Servers and restart, ACS1 starts responding correctly to TACACS requests. Of course, ACS1 is just proxying all requests to ACS2, so having two servers isn't doing much good.
I cannot simply remove ACS1 from the Forward To column and leave it empty. The interface complains that it can't forward to zero servers. Of course, on ACS2, there are no servers in the Forward To column, since we never touched the Proxy Distribution Table there.
Is there any way to return the Proxy Distribution Table to its default setup, that is, no servers appear in the "Forward To" column?
We're planning to upgrade to version 4.2 very soon, so this question is mostly academic, unless the same problem exists in 4.2.
For full disclosure, I should mention that the problem we were troubleshooting was loss of connectivity to our Windows Domain Controllers from our ACS servers. We had missed adding some exceptions in our firewalls to allow for four new DCs. As far as we can tell from testing, connectivity to the DCs is now fine. The firewall rules group ACS1 and ACS2 together, so connectivity should be the same, and ACS2 authenticates users correctly.

Hello Jeffrey,
By default the ACS 4.x Proxy Distribution Settings should have the ACS entry for itself on the Forward To box. Your ACS1 entry should be on the Forward To box.
The Internal Error message on the ACS should be highligthing a different issue on your ACS1. Also, the message stating that we cannot have zero servers on the "Forward To" box is expected.
Set your ACS1 for Full Logging Detail (System Configuration > Service Control) and configure the ACS1 entry under the Forward To box. Recreate the authentication issue and collect a package.cab file. If you have an ACS for Windows, under the ACS Installation folder look for the CSAuth folder > Logs and share the auth.log file with a failure timestamp for us to review the ACS logs when failing with Internal Error.
If this was helpful please rate.
Regards.

ACS 4.2 For Windows DB Replication

Hi Folks.
I have a pair of ACS for windows 4,2 and we also have a few mappings (ACS Group --> AD Group)
The replication process was configured and it replicates all the seetings, but the Group Mappings.
Is this the way it's supposed to be or it should replicate the group mappings as well?
Best regards,
AL

The following items cannot be replicated:
•IP pool definitions (for more information, see About IP Pools Server).
•ACS certificate and private key files.
•Unknown user group mapping configuration.
•Dynamically-mapped users.
•Settings on the ACS Service Management page in the System Configuration section.
•RDBMS Synchronization settings.
User guide
http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/4.2/user/guide/SCAdv.html#wp756078
Regards,
Jatin
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ACS SE setup for windows authentication

Dear All,
I'm trying to install an ACS Solution Engine in My network for access control (AAA). I succeed in setting up authentication using the internal database and that works fine. Now My boss want users to be authenticated through an external database (windows AD). I tried achieving this but kept getting different errors.(like EAP-TLS or PEAP authentication failed during SSL handshake) or (Authen session timed out: Challenge not provided by client).
Please I need someone who has done this setup successfully before to give Me a step by step procedure on how I can setup ACS SE for windows authentication using My domain windows authentication.
Thanks

Dear All,I'm
trying to install an ACS Solution Engine in My network for access
control (AAA). I succeed in setting up authentication using the
internal database and that works fine. Now My boss want users to be
authenticated through an external database (windows AD). I tried
achieving this but kept getting different errors.(like EAP-TLS or PEAP
authentication failed during SSL handshake) or (Authen session timed
out: Challenge not provided by client).Please
I need someone who has done this setup successfully before to give Me a
step by step procedure on how I can setup ACS SE for windows
authentication using My domain windows authentication.Thanks
Hi,
Check out the belwo link on your query,Hope that help !!
https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-5542
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Ganesh.H

ACS 5.1 for Windows VM Ware

Hello,
Please help me...
I want to know can we install ACS 5.1 in Windows VM Ware machine. I have downloaded it but it is giving me the option of installation in Linux.
Please suggest.

Ravi,
This release of ACS 5.1 provides new architecture and functionality on a standard Cisco Linux-based. We would be requiring a new box all together for 5.0.
Installing ACS on VMware virtual machine
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.1/installation/guide/csacs_vmware.pdf
ACS 5.1 doesn't support windows OS.
HTH
JK
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Created a working Windows To Go flashdrive but it won't accept my paid-for Windows 8 license key

I created a Windows To Go flash drive using 64-bit Windows 8.1. It boots and works perfectly except that I cannot activate it with the license key I got when I paid for Windows 8 last summer (I bought the digital download, ordered the
optional disc, and carefully recorded the license key Microsoft e-mailed me).
I noticed that the "build" of the Windows To Go flash drive states "Windows 8 PRO," not Windows 8 or 8.1. Did I screw up and not install the right version of Windows to the drive? Is Windows To Go only for the PRO version of Windows 8
and not the regular version? I only worked on this as an experiment to see if I could boot Windows 8 on our work PC's (which are sadly still running XP), and I am so close! Where did I go wrong?

Windows 8 PRO is Enterprise Edition? Official Windows to go only with Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise Edition. However, if you have no Enterprise Edition, you can try Aomei Partition Assistant and its new function "windows to go creator"
http://www.disk-partition.com/features/windows-to-go-creator.html
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Cisco Secure ACS 4.2 for Windows web-based Admin Console log in problems

To Whomever Can Assist,
I am running two deployments of Cisco Secure ACS for Windows 4.2 and I can login into the admin web-console just fine. However, when I create a new or test user that mirror my configuration that user cannot login to the admin web-console. The user can login it to devices with the appropriate privileges, but can't administer his/her account within ACS. This has proven very problematic and needs a remedy. Thanks for the assistance.

Bradbryant.dhs,
Where are you creating the new admin user who should have access to ACS web gui under internal users or administration.
Internal user and ACS administrator accounts are completely different.
Adding administrator account
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/4-2/user/guide/ACS4_2UG/Admin.html
Regards,
Jatin Katyal
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ACS SE & CSACS for windows

Hello Friends,
If i order Access Control Server Solution Engine (ACS SE) CSACS-1120-K9, i should'nt order a CSACS for windows CD,????? Is it ACS server is built-in in ACS SE no need of installing windows OS and on top of that ACS server ,i m confuse regarding the product.
Can anybody help me for this,i have been through the cisco web site but not pretty sure regarding these two product.
Thanks

CSACS-1120-K9 is an ACS appliance, and it supports both ACS version 5.0 and 5.1.
Here is the release notes for both versions:
5.0: http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.0/release/notes/ACS-50-releasenotes.html
5.1: http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.1/release/notes/acs_51_rn.html
FYI, ACS version 5.x onwards is completely different to the previous version of ACS 3.x and 4.x.

ACS 3.3 for windows - Win AD and eap-tls problem

Hi,
I have a problem with an ACS to authenticate users with certificate on MS AD.
Working things:
PEAP authentication with the MS AD;
EAP-TLS authentication with the local DB.
Not working things:
EAP-TLS authentication with MS AD.
Because I'm able to auth users with PEAP on MS AD, I guess my config on MS AD is correct.
Because I'm able to auth users with certif in EAP-TLS, I guess my certif config is correct.
So, why it's not working with the combination EAP-TLS and MS AD.
I receive the error 'External DB Account Restriction'
Thanks for your help.

Hi,
This is what is interesting,
AuthenProcessResponse: process response for 'phd' against Windows Database
Unknown User 'phd' was not authenticated
Done RQ1027, client 50, status -2125
The field that is being picked from certificate has the value 'phd', check you check which field is it.
And was the logging at full?, I think something is missing in the logs.
Lets do a sanity check, and go through following link again,
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2086/products_configuration_example09186a008068d45a.shtml
Regards,
Prem

Install Disk for Windows XP/License information 3000 V100

My hard drive is having some problems. It is working but my paging file is not working. Once my ram is used up my system starts having resourse problems. I have ordered a replacement hard drive. I will try to reimage my hard drive but I am afraid it won't reimage properly and will have to reinstall XP professional. Where do I get the original operating system software? My original license information on the bottom of my Lenovo 3000 V100 have rubbed off. So where can I get the install disk or software for XP professional and also get all of my original license information?
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