Cisco Cisco Prime Optical 10.3 Technical References

Cisco Systems, Inc.
www.cisco.com

March 31, 2015

This document describes the basic external authentication functionality in Cisco Prime Optical 10.3.

This document contains the following topics:

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

Basic external authentication involves the following protocols:

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