Configuring Quarantine Agent

Configuring the Quarantine agent on an authenticator switch port consists of:

  • Setting the quarantine agent state globally and per port
  • Setting optional quarantine agent parameters

Quarantine Agent Configuration describes how to configure the quarantine agent on an authenticator switch port. Unspecified parameters use their default values.

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Quarantine Agent Configuration

Step Task Command(s)
1 Enable the quarantine agent on the switch. set quarantine-agent enable
2 Enable the quarantine agent on each port. set quarantine-agent port enable port-string
3 Optionally, modify the maximum number of quarantine agent sessions allowed on the port. Defaults to number of Multiauth users setting. set quarantine-agent port authallocated num-users port-string
4 Optionally, modify the idle timeout value in seconds. Defaults to the Multiauth idle timeout value. set quarantine-agent port idle-timeout idle-timeout port-string
5 Optionally, modify the session timeout value in seconds. defaults to the global multiauth session timeout. set quarantine-agent port session-timeout session-timeout port-string
6 Optionally, globally enable quarantine agent accounting. set quarantine-agent accounting {enable | disable}
7 Optionally display global quarantine agent state and the ports with quarantine agent enabled. show quarantine-agent [port port-string]