Cisco Access Control Security: AAA Administrative Services

Chapter 14. Service Provider AAA and the Cisco CNS Access Registrar

In this chapter, you learn the following topics:

• The service provider (SP) model

• The service provider challenge

• Value added services

• Options of the Cisco CNS Access Registrar

• Installation requirements for AR

• Installing AR

• AR subdirectories

• Configuring Cisco CNS AR

In many cases, a service provider's role is to provide network access to a customer. To provide this type of service, a provider must have the ability to add, delete, and manipulate its infrastructure as customers are added and removed. This chapter looks at the role of authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) in a service provider environment and some of the benefits provided by AAA in this environment.

Service Provider ...