Cisco Cisco NAC Appliance 4.1.0
Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Manager Installation and Administration Guide
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Switch Management: Configuring Out-of-Band
(OOB) Deployment
(OOB) Deployment
This chapter describes how to configure Cisco NAC Appliance for out-of-band (OOB) deployment.
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See Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Server Installation and Administration Guide for additional
information on L3 OOB deployment.
information on L3 OOB deployment.
Overview
In a traditional in-band Cisco NAC Appliance deployment, all network traffic to or from clients goes
through the Clean Access Server. For high throughput or highly routed environments, a Cisco NAC
Appliance Out-of-Band (OOB) deployment allows client traffic to pass through the Clean Access
network only in order to be authenticated and certified before being connected directly to the access
network. This section discusses the following topics:
through the Clean Access Server. For high throughput or highly routed environments, a Cisco NAC
Appliance Out-of-Band (OOB) deployment allows client traffic to pass through the Clean Access
network only in order to be authenticated and certified before being connected directly to the access
network. This section discusses the following topics:
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