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White Paper
Cisco Prime Access Registrar Customization
Techniques
Techniques
Cisco Prime
™
Access Registrar is a feature-rich, RADIUS and Diameter-compliant
authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server. Cisco Prime Access
Registrar is also a highly customizable application that offers flexibility and
extensibility for service providers to meet access needs not already built into the
product. This white paper discusses these customizable capabilities, which allow
providers to meet unique business, regulatory, and technical requirements. These
capabilities include:
Registrar is also a highly customizable application that offers flexibility and
extensibility for service providers to meet access needs not already built into the
product. This white paper discusses these customizable capabilities, which allow
providers to meet unique business, regulatory, and technical requirements. These
capabilities include:
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A flow-through configuration interface that enables service providers to automate configurations and
integrate with the operations support system (OSS)
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Extension point scripting (EPS) that allows Cisco Prime Access Registrar users to interact with request
processing and communicate with Cisco Prime Access Registrar at numerous extension points to develop
and deploy custom logic for user authentication, authorization, and accounting
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Support for writing custom AAA services when the built-in services such as Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), local, and proxy AAA services do not meet service
provider needs
This paper discusses each of these customization techniques in detail, including a description of key
concepts and examples showing how to use the feature. For additional detailed information about Cisco
Prime Access Registrar, refer to the documentation links at
A major challenge that all service providers face is to develop and maintain an AAA infrastructure that can
efficiently serve an increasingly diverse mix of access services, users, and partners. AAA systems have to be able
to keep up with changes in services being sold, users subscribing to those services, and access servers managing
the connections for new technologies.
Adding to this complexity is the changing nature of who is providing services because of ongoing consolidations
and mergers, emerging broker services, and shifting wholesale/retail relationships that result in multivendor,
heterogeneous AAA environments with increasingly complex business models.
Service providers also have to keep up with the need to integrate with OSS, centralize data stores, and adapt
billing systems to keep pace with all the changes.
How Cisco Prime Access Registrar Can Help
Given the rapid rate and scope of change in the service provider AAA environment, successful service providers
have had to balance the benefits of developing and maintaining their own proprietary AAA servers with the reality
that the AAA world is too complex to be effectively and efficiently managed with in-house resources. To be
successful, service providers need to keep their resources focused on their core business rather than AAA server
development.