Cisco Cisco Expressway Maintenance Manual
User Accounts
This section provides information about how to configure administrator accounts, and how to display the details of all
active administrator sessions.
active administrator sessions.
About User Accounts
Administrator accounts are used to configure the Expressway.
Account Authentication
Administrator accounts must be authenticated before access is allowed to the Expressway.
Expressway can authenticate accounts either locally or against a remote directory service using LDAP (currently, only
Windows Active Directory is supported), or it can use a combination of local and remotely managed accounts. The
remote option allows administration groups to be set up in the directory service for all Expressways in an enterprise,
removing the need to have separate accounts on each Expressway.
Windows Active Directory is supported), or it can use a combination of local and remotely managed accounts. The
remote option allows administration groups to be set up in the directory service for all Expressways in an enterprise,
removing the need to have separate accounts on each Expressway.
If a remote source is used for administrator account authentication, you also need to configure the Expressway with:
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appropriate LDAP server connection settings
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administrator groups that match the corresponding group names already set up in the remote directory service
to manage administrator access to this Expressway (see
to manage administrator access to this Expressway (see
)
. This would typically be required if
the Expressway was deployed in a highly-secure environment.
Account Types
Administrator accounts
Administrator accounts are used to configure the Expressway.
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The Expressway has a default admin local administrator account with full read-write access. It can be used to
access the Expressway using the web interface, the API interface or the CLI. Note that you cannot access the
Expressway via the default admin account if a Remote only authentication source is in use.
access the Expressway using the web interface, the API interface or the CLI. Note that you cannot access the
Expressway via the default admin account if a Remote only authentication source is in use.
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