Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000606-02, June 2008)

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Managing RADIUS service
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The three choices in the drop-down menu when RADIUS is selected as the primary service are:
• Switch Database when RADIUS Authentication Fails—When selected, the switch user login
database will be checked whenever RADIUS authentication fails.
• Switch Database When RADIUS Times Out—Switch user login database is checked only if the
physical connection to the RADIUS server fails.
• None—Switch user login database is never checked. Only a RADIUS server can be used for
authentication.
FIGURE 105 Choices in the Secondary AAA Service drop-down menu
If the switch database is selected as primary, there is no secondary option. The RADIUS server
cannot be configured as a backup for the switch user login database.
When the primary AAA service is RADIUS you can enable the secondary service which offers three
choices:
• None
• Switch Database when RADUIS authorization fails
• Switch Database when RADIUS times out
When RADIUS login fails, even though RADIUS server is available, the additional service allows you
the option to use the Switch Database as backup authentication service when the RADIUS server is
not available. Alternatively, you can have no secondary AAA service, which means that only the
primary service will be used for authentication.
Use the AAA Service tab of the Switch Administration window to manage the RADIUS service (see
Figure 106).