This tab provides information about the NAC Configuration being used by your Extreme Access Controlengines. To access this tab, select the All NAC Appliances folder or an Appliance Group folder in the left-panel tree, then click the Configuration tab in the right panel.
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- Appliance Settings
- The engine settings configuration being used by your Access Control engines. Engine settings are configurable through the Advanced Configuration view, by selecting Tools > Management and Configuration > Advanced Configurations from the menu bar. In the left-panel tree, expand the Global and Appliance Settings folder.
Displays whether RADIUS Monitor Clients are enabled for the Access Control engines in the folder. Click the Edit button to open the Configure RADIUS Monitor Clients window where you can configure RADIUS monitoring tools to monitor Access Control engine performance and availability. For more information, see Configure RADIUS Clients to Monitor NAC in the Monitor NAC Health section of the NAC Technical Reference.
- Configuration
- The name of the NAC Configuration being used by your Access Control engines. Click the Edit button to open the Edit NAC Configuration window where you can make changes to the configuration, if desired. The NAC Configuration determines what NAC Profile will be assigned to an end-system connecting to the network.
- Default Profile
- The name of the Default Profile specified in the NAC Configuration. The Default Profile serves as a "catch-all" profile for any end-system that doesn’t match one of the rules listed in the NAC Configuration.
- Registration
- Whether a registration/web access feature is enabled or disabled for the NAC Configuration.
- Assessment/Remediation
- Whether the assessment/remediation feature is enabled or disabled for the NAC Configuration.
- Portal Configuration
- The name of the Portal Configuration specified in the NAC Configuration. If your network is implementing Registration or Assisted Remediation, the Portal Configuration defines the branding and behavior of the website used by the end user during the registration or remediation process.
- AAA Configuration
- The name of the AAA Configuration specified in the NAC Configuration.
- Communication Channel
- If your network has the Communication Channel feature enabled, you will see a menu where you can select a communication channel for the engine group. For more information, see How to Configure Communication Channels. You will not see this field if the feature is not enabled.
This section allows you to configure load balancing for the engine group. NAC Manager provides two different load balancing configuration options: either ExtremeXOS/EOS firmware on S-Series and K-Series devices, or utilizing external load balancers. Load balancing allows you to evenly distribute authentication requests and switch configuration ownership among your Access Control gateway engines. This can be useful in NAC Manager deployments with a large number of switches, where manual delegation of switch resources may be cumbersome.
- ExtremeXOS/EOS Firmware Load Balancing – The default setting is Manual Configuration. Click the Edit button to open the Configure Load Balancer(s) window where you can select the load balancing algorithm as part of the RADIUS configuration on S-Series and K-Series devices. For more information, see the How to Configure Load Balancing Help topic.
- External Load Balancer(s) – The default setting is Disabled. Click the Edit button to open the Configure Load Balancers window where you can configure an ordered list of external load balancers that will be used to evenly distribute Access Control engine load. For more information, see the How to Configure Load Balancing Help topic.