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This book describes Cisco Access Registrar components and how to use them.
This chapter describes who should read this book, how it is organized, and the document conventions used throughout this book.
This guide is designed for network managers who are responsible for IP address management. The network manager should be familiar with the following topics:
This book is organized as follows:
"Understanding RADIUS," provides an overview of the RADIUS server, including connection steps, RADIUS message types, and using Cisco Access Registrar as a proxy server.
"Understanding Cisco Access Registrar," describes the Cisco Access Registrar object structure and explains when Cisco Access Registrar references each of these objects during the processing of client requests.
"Server Objects," describes the Cisco Access Registrar objects that you use to configure and operate your RADIUS server.
"Using Extension Points," describes how to use Cisco Access Registrar scripting to customize your RADIUS server.
"Using the aregcmd Commands," describes the aregcmd commands, which allow you to set any Cisco Access Registrar configurable option, as well as start and stop the server, and check statistics.
"Using the radclient Command," describes how to use the Cisco Access Registrar testing command, radclient, to test your RADIUS server.
"Cisco Access Registrar Dictionaries," describes the Tcl and REX dictionaries that are used when writing Incoming or Outgoing scripts.
"Environment Dictionary," describes the environment variables that scripts use to communicate with Cisco Access Registrar or to communicate with other scripts.
"RADIUS Attributes," lists the RFC 2138 RADIUS attributes with their names and values.
"Backup Facility," describes the Cisco Access Registrar shadow backup facility, which ensures a consistent snapshot of Cisco Access Registrar's database for backup purposes.
"Using the REX Accounting Script," describes how to use the REX Accounting script.
"Glossary," provides a list of terms and their corresponding definitions used throughout the Cisco Access Registrar documentation.
An Index is also provided.
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This book and the following documents comprise the Cisco Access Registrar documentation set:
The following list of documents contains additional information which may help you more fully understand the material described in this manual:
These documents are available on the Cisco document CD.
This section discusses conventions and terminology used throughout this book.
The Cisco Access Registrar software supports a three-button mouse. The buttons are configured as follows:
This book uses this terminology throughout (even though it is possible for individual users to customize their devices to use the buttons in an alternative manner).
In situations that allow more than one item to be selected from a list simultaneously, the following actions are supported:
Bold font is also used for keywords, names of commands and menus, and names of keys on the keyboard.
Text displayed as on-screen examples is printed in courier font.
When set off from the main text, words and characters you should enter by the keyboard are printed in bold font. When the word or character string is enclosed in angle brackets
(< and >), you should substitute your own character string for the example presented in the text.
For example, when you see:
you should specify the string root at the login prompt. However, when you see:
you should specify your own password in place of the character string <rootpassword>.
The italic style is used to emphasize words, to introduce new terms, and for titles of printed publications (however, not titles of CD-ROMs or floppy disks).
Posted: Thu Aug 19 08:16:11 PDT 1999
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