Cisco Cisco Access Registrar 5.0 Prospecto

 

 

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Q.  What types of accounting and billing systems does Cisco Access Registrar support? 

A.  Cisco Access Registrar supports local flat-file accounting records, proxy RADIUS accounting, or writing 

records directly to an Oracle or MySQL database or a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory. 

In addition, Cisco Access Registrar can be configured to use a combination of these accounting methods 

when processing an accounting request. These methods also allow either offline transfers or direct feeds of 

accounting records into a billing server. 

Q.  Does Cisco Access Registrar come with an LDAP directory server? 

A.  No, Cisco Access Registrar does not provide an LDAP directory server. Cisco Access Registrar has been 

tested successfully with the Sun ONE Directory Server and Novell eDirectory. OpenLDAP provides an open 

source LDAP directory. 

Q.  Does Cisco Access Registrar support postpaid and prepaid subscriptions? 

A.  Cisco Access Registrar supports both prepaid and postpaid subscriptions and supports offline accounting. 

To support postpaid subscriptions, Cisco Access Registrar can: 

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Proxy RADIUS accounting messages to capable billing systems directly 

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Write to a local file or a relational database management system(RDBMS), and billing systems can read 

from these 

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Performa combination of these 

To support prepaid subscriptions, Cisco Access Registrar can be integrated with billing systems using a set of 

predefined APIs. Cisco Access Registrar supports Cisco real-time billing and the IS835c prepaid standards. 

Q.  Which Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication methods does Cisco Access Registrar 

support? 

A.  EAP methods supported by Cisco Access Registrar are: 

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EAP-SIM 

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EAP-AKA 

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EAP-TLS 

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EAP-TTLS 

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EAP-MSChapV2 

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EAP-MD5 

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EAP-LEAP 

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EAP-GTC 

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Protected EAP 

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EAP-Negotiate: Used to select a list of candidate EAP services that represent the allowable authentication 

methods in preference order 

Q.  How is centralized administration achieved in Cisco Access Registrar? 

A.  The Cisco Access Registrar replication feature can maintain identical configurations on multiple machines 

simultaneously. When replication is properly configured, changes an administrator makes on the primary or 

master server are propagated by Cisco Access Registrar to a secondary or member server. Replication 

eliminates the need to have administrators with multiple Cisco Access Registrar installations make the same 

configuration changes at each of their installations. Instead, only the master's configuration needs be changed,