Cisco Cisco Prime Optical 9.8 Technical References

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This document describes the basic external authentication functionality in Cisco Prime Optical 9.8.

This document contains the following topics:

Basic external authentication enables users to log into Prime Optical only once, and thereafter access 
multiple operations without being required to re-enter a username and password.

Basic external authentication involves the following protocols:

For information on the differences between the TACACS+ and RADIUS protocols, see