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QUESTION POSED ON: 07 February 2008
I have a lab set up with a Win2003 server domain called dot1xdom.com, a user called dot1xuser1 as a member of a group called dot1xusers. Cisco documentation for ACS is extremely unclear in demonstrating how to define the values required in the Generic LDAP schema section.

I have searched for two months and found that others have had similar issues. I cannot work out with any confidence the required values for the following: User Directory Subtree, Group Directory Subtree, User Object Type, User Object Class, Group Object Type, Group Object Class, Group Attribute Name. I have succeeded in getting the switch access experiment running with IAS RADIUS but NOT with Cisco ACS. Can you help me?


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EXPERT RESPONSE
One of the documents that Cisco provides for configuring ACS is the "Step-by-Step Configuration for Cisco ACS." In this document, I was able to obtain the information relevant to the parameters for LDAP authentication parameters.

The documentation assumes that you have set up a generic LDAP server. In setting up the LDAP server in my lab, I have included the parameters I set up for each category and a little further explanation for how to set them up. It's important to note that in user configuration for Active Directory and/or any other generic LDAP server, these options are available for selection and administrator defined. They would not appear in generic local user and group server administration.

User Directory Subtree: Users
Group Directory Subtree: Users/homedir
User Object Type: ou=user
User Object Class: users
Group Object Type: Groups
Group Object Class: group
Group Attribute Name: MyName

By ensuring you have the appropriate equipment set up in your lab, this should mirror exactly with what the ACS guide is depicting.


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