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Cisco Unity Express Voice-Mail and Auto-Attendant CLI Administrator Guide for 3.0 and Later Versions
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Chapter 8 Configuring Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
Configuring the AAA Policy
3. If the second RADIUS server does not respond or does not accept the authentication credentials of 
the user, the user receives the appropriate error message and Cisco Unity Express tries to contact the 
local database.
4. If the local database does not accept the authentication credentials of the user, the user receives an 
error message.
Specifying the Policy that Controls the Behavior of Authentication and 
Authorization
SUMMARY STEPS
1. config t
2. aaa policy system
3. authentication-order {remote [local] | local [remote]}
4. authorization merge-attributes
5. end
6. show aaa policy
DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action Purpose
Step 1
config t
Example:
se-10-0-0-0# config t
Enters configuration mode.
Step 2
aaa policy system
Example:
se-10-0-0-0(config)# aaa policy system
Enters aaa-authentication submode to enable you to 
specify the policy that controls the behavior of 
authentication and authorization.
Step 3
authentication-order {remote [local]|local [remote]}
Example:
se-10-0-0-0(config)# authentication-order remote 
local
Specifies the order in which to query the 
authentication servers and local authentication 
database.
Step 4
authorization merge-attributes
Example:
se-10-0-0-0(config)# authorization merge-attributes
Specifies whether the user attributes that are retrieved 
from a remote RADIUS AAA server are merged with 
attributes for the same username found in the local 
user database.










