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Cisco, a leader in providing networking solutions for service providers, fully understands these issues. Cisco Prime
Access Registrar is the Cisco
®
AAA solution for service providers. Cisco Prime Access Registrar is designed as a
comprehensive, out-of-the-box, standards-based, AAA system. It also can be customized to meet special AAA
needs. Cisco Prime Access Registrar users get the best of both worlds - support for most Remote Authentication
Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) and Diameter server needs, and customization capability for the rest.
Figure 1 shows the standard features of Cisco Prime Access Registrar as well as its customization support.
Figure 1. Cisco Prime Access Registrar Features
The figure shows the configuration interface that service providers can use to customize OSS functions by using
automated scripts and OSS integration. Service providers also can launch extension point scripts during
request/response cycles to change the results of
the program flow. Finally, service providers can create their own
custom services to replace or add to the built-in services such as LDAP and ODBC.
These three customization features provide the scalability (by allowing support for frequent and numerous
con
figuration changes), power (by supporting the ability to manipulate each request), and functionality (by allowing
support for new technologies) that service providers require without sacrificing flexibility and simplicity.
Automating Configurations
The aregcmd
utility is a configuration tool that allows users to set Cisco Prime Access Registrar configurable
options in either interactive or noninteractive modes. This section focuses on the noninteractive mode. From the
noninteractive mode, administrators and external programs (as well as an OSS) can run a single command or
multiple commands from a file.
multiple commands from a file.
By using individual aregcmd commands or by creating batches of aregcmd commands, service providers can
customize their AAA server environment. Using individual aregcmd commands allows service provider support
personnel to make configuration changes quickly. The benefit of using batch files of aregcmd commands is that
service providers can simplify the repetitive configuration tasks by creating a file to do these tasks, and then reuse
the file as often as necessary. The time-consuming tasks of creating new users, creating new RADIUS clients, or
resetting passwords, for example, can be managed by creating configuration files and storing them for future use.
personnel to make configuration changes quickly. The benefit of using batch files of aregcmd commands is that
service providers can simplify the repetitive configuration tasks by creating a file to do these tasks, and then reuse
the file as often as necessary. The time-consuming tasks of creating new users, creating new RADIUS clients, or
resetting passwords, for example, can be managed by creating configuration files and storing them for future use.