Nortel Networks 4050 User Manual

Appendix A CLI reference 811

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide

 

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 it can also be expressed as 

You can use variables in some commands and features in the Nortel SNAS 4050 
software. 

TIP: Variables included in links are URL encoded. Variables included in static 
texts are not URL encoded.

 describes variables and their use.

Variables

<var:user>

Expands to the user name specified when the user logged on to the domain. 

<var:password>

Expands to the password specified when the user logged on to the domain. .

<var:group>

Expands to the group to which the logged on user is a member. 

<var:portal>

Expands to the Portal IP address. TIP: The variable can be included in redirect 
URLs.

<var:domain>

Expands to the domain name specified for the authentication method of the logged 
on user.

<var:method>

Expands to the access protocol used (http or https).

<var:sslsid>

Expands to the SSL session ID in binary format.

<md5:...>

Expands the variable or variables (for example, <md5:<user>:<password>>) and 
computes an MD5 checksum which is Base 64 encoded. TIP: Can be used when 
creating dynamic HTTP headers.

<base64:...>

Expands the variable or variables (for example, <base64:<user>:<password>>) 
and encodes them using Base 64. TIP: Can be used when creating dynamic HTTP 
headers.

<var:tgFailureReason> Expands to the TunnelGuard rule expression and the TunnelGuard rule comment 

specified for the current SRS rule when a TunnelGuard check has failed. 

<var:tgFailureDetail>

Expands to the software definition comment specified for the current SRS rule, 
including additional failure details, when a TunnelGuard check has failed. 

Operator-defined 
variables

Custom variables can be created to retrieve the desired values from RADIUS and 
LDAP databases.