Authentication Configuration Example

Our example covers six supported authentication types being used in an engineering group context: an end-user station, an IP phone, a printer cluster, and public internet access, along with both the quarantine and auto-tracking agents turned on in appropriate places.

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Authentication Configuration Example Overview
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Our configuration example consists of the following steps as shown in Authentication Configuration Example Overview and described in the sections that follow:

  1. Configuring policies, RADIUS, and MultiAuth authentication on the switch.
  2. Creating RADIUS user accounts on the authentication server.
  3. Configuring for the engineering group 802.1x end-user stations.
  4. Configuring for the engineering group Siemens CEP devices.
  5. Configuring for the printer cluster MAC authentication.
  6. Configuring for the public area Internet access for PWA.