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• Search for host ISE MAB - PAP or EAP - MD5

  In the docs, it is said that MAB uses PAP/ASCII or EAP - MD5 for the MAC as a username / password.

  In the configuration of the attached, MAB talking place successfully from an iPhone, without going through PAP or EAP - MD5 enabled as allowed protocols.

  Is the "host search" under the allowed protocols, provides the MAC address to be spent in PAP / EAP - MD5, even if these two protocols are not enabled below in the section Configuring authentication protocols?

  How could dictate us our switch to start the use of EAP - MD5 for the MAC?  If you look at the details of authentication attached output, it indicates in the AV pair an EAP-key.  Isn't it?

  Thank you.

  Cath.

  Hello Cath-

  Question #1: Yes, I think you're right. I think that the "host search" is kind of 'Protocol', used to treat the MAB. If you look at the top of the authentication session of do you by virtue of the ' authentication protocol? My guess is that you see "Lookup" (see screenshot)

  Question #2: You can force the switch to use EAP - MD5 by adding "EAP" to the "MAB" command under the individual ports:

  interface fa0/1

  MAB eap

  Things to conisider:

  1) if you make this change the condition by default/built-in in ISE "Wired-MAB" will have to be modified since the

  the service type radius attribute will be of "Check call" to "box. So your MAB devices can easily ignore the rule of authentication of the MAB and be denied on the network

  2) because the MAC address is sent in clear text "Attribute 31" (Calling-Station-Id), MAB EAP offers additional security by encrypting the MAC address in the password

  3) because the service for MAB EAP type is identical to a request from IEEE 802. 1 X, RADIUS server will not be able to easily differentiate requests for MAB EAP requests IEEE 802. 1 X

  This is a good document that you can reference as well:

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6586/ps6638/config_guide_c17-663759.html

  I hope this helps...

  Thanks for the note!

• stupid question of ISE

  When I enable profiling on the ISE, it automatically 'profiled' addeds devices to the MAB database, as HP workstations or Cisco IP phones.

  so that they can automatically connect via MAB. How can I avoid this?

  Geert

  Your other option is to configure your devices profiled automatically create their own profile groups.

  In this way they will not fall in the MAB group and not to be performed by the authentication status of MAB.

  If you don't know where do let me know, can give you the path of the menu.

  Sent by Cisco Support technique iPad App

• ISE: MAB, SoA...

  Hello

  I want to implement Cisco ISE on my network, and authentication 802. 1 x will be operational.

  When I give a glance at this document: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ise/1.0.4/compatibility/ise104_sdt.html#wp55038
  There are a lot of Catalyst 2950 on my network and I see that some features are not supported on these devices: MAB, dACL, SGA.

  What are the consequences of these technologies of failure to load? I discovered for example that MAB has been used to authenticate devices which does not allow or help 802.1 x, if the printers on my network still works?

  And what about the dACL and the LMS? These really useful features or is it not so bad if I can't use them?

  Thank you.

  Hello Yoshipower,

  Catalyst 2950 supports no MAB, SGA, CWA, LWA, dACL, except that it supports 802. 1 x only. This means that you can only use the dot1x authentication but profiling, customer provisioning, posture assessment, change in the characteristics of the authorization are not available in the Catalyst 2950. You have already gone through the compatibility of network ISE component document.

  So if you feel only authentication meets your condition, you can configure the authentication of the dot1x but it should not be enabled on ports where devices such as printers, IP phones, camera UPS etc are connected. Briefly, it can be said that only the user authentication is available

  Kind regards

  Ashok

• Question of ISE CWA Cisco

  Nice day

  I have 1.2 ISE Cisco with Cisco 2960 n.

  I set up the authorization of the employee successfully, but my problem is with the users of comments that the link is not redirected.

  Please let know us what I put in the default authentication policy rule? deny access?

  And on the switch, I should put the prompt to connect to specific ports or I have to configure the VLAN specific authorization profile?

  Appreciate your support,

  In your authorization policy, you give your guest Wired the same result as Wired-Webauth.

  First time through you don't know he is invited so that it hits Wired-Webauth and gets redirected. Second time you need him in comments feed, so that you know that he is a guest authenticated, it hits Wired-Guest, but you send the same permissions 'Web_Auth '. Create a profile that you want to offer your guests authenticated - Guest_Allowed for example.

• Question of ISE

  In ISE, server for comments, a second NETWORK card interface can be used to physically connect the comments interface to a DMZ?  If so, can you give a link?

  Comments running on another interface has not been tested so

  is not officially supported.  You will have the best chance running

  Comments on Gig1 and your collection of profiling probes on Gig2 or Gig3.

  Another problem with mobile portal of comments to a second interface

  is that there is currently no option to set a separate management and

  certificate of comments.  Management certificate should not be

  generated the hostname of the ISE.  This means that you must have

  your users in the DMZ Gets a DNS response for the internal and gig1

  subnets Gets a DNS response from gig0 for the same host name.  I think

  This is the main reason that we do not move the portal comments out of

  gig0 at the moment.

• Question of ISE 1.3 MyDevices Portal: you are not owner of this unit

  Hello

  I am facing a problem with the portal MyDevices.

  Recording BYOD-On-Boarding work pretty well, and users to access the network they need to do.

  However, when the user accesses the portal MyDevices, some registered devices (which already have access to the network) is shown as "Pending" State. But I do not think that it could be a problem because users can connect at any time and access the network normally.

  The problem is: when the user tries to modify or change the State of the device (mark as lost, stolen or Delete), they get the error message "you are not the owner of this unit; It belongs to someone els. "Contact technical support if you need help.

  P.S.: users are allways in the face of this error message, despite the device of State pending or registered .

  Does someone has faced a problem like this, or have an idea to help me solve it?

  Thanks in advance.

  Error message attached.

  Maybe this bug:https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCus79068 ?

  We have the same problem with the users in AD in capital letters. But lowercase users can remove and change machines without problem.

• ISE design question

  I have a few design questions about ISE v.1.0.4.573

  1. The ISE 3395 gigabit ports are supported on the aggregation of links?  How can I use all 4 ports uplink?
  2. When you perform an installation of 2 x 3395 HA, is there a connection of heart rate between the two ISE or they will use the same link to the network of pulsing and synchronization?
  3. I'm designing ISE with WLC. My setup WLC (5508) looks like 5 floors with different VLAN but same SSID. How can I do ISE authenticate in this scenario because WGB AP is not supported in ISE v.1.0. Is there a work around for this type of WiFi to the ISE configuration?
  4. Continuous configuration above, roaming from one floor to another floor after changing of Vlan, the user will be re - authenticate or use the same session?

  Thanks for the help.

  Kind regards

  Zohaib

  1. the current version does not support the aggregation of links...

  2. they use the same link to the network of pulsing and synchronization.

  3. my suggestion is to assign your SSID, a group of interfaces, containing all interfaces belonging to your VLAN, on your WLC and set AAA replacement. And then, at ISE, create authorization profiles include the appropriate VLAN. Use the Called-Station-ID RADIUS attribute with your MAC address of the AP as a condition.

  4. they use the same session.

• ISE Server - query of multiple networks

  Hi guys

  We intend to deploy a Cisco ISE server to handle NAC for 300 users (Windows, WYSE, phones Avaya and HP printers). DHCP is running on the domain controller and the ISE interface Layer 2 visibility of all of the network segment management.

  We received an additional amount for a dedicated/completely separate switch VLAN which provides unlimited Internet access. It would be connected to a third-party router connected to the Internet, allowing connections directly on the internet. Indeed, it is a completely separate network of a single VLAN and Internet access.

  Is it not possible to manage the security of the ports for that VLAN from the ISE Server? If so, the server ISE would need an additional NIC configured in the VIRTUAL Internet LAN subnet?

  Basically, I wonder if a single ISE server can be used to manage 2 totally independent networks. The Internet would not use AD authentication and access would have to grant manually on a case by case basis.

  Thank you very much

  M

  Just to clarify, ISE has NO need to be Layer2-adjacent to clients to work. Only if you use specific profiles of the probes is this useful ever. Has no use when you perform the validation of the mac addresses or 802. 1 x.

  As for your question, yes ISE can manage the addresses of mac validation by the ex. say requiring access to your 'Internet' VLAN and your internal VLANS at the same time. However, it is not made with the 'port security' switch feature, but rather by entering the mac addresses that need access to your server to ISE and using the "group" you put them in ISE, in ads a condition when the permission access to ISE.

• Attestation of ATP necessary for ISE 1.3 and 1.4

  Hello

  I have a question about ISE more and ISE Apex Licenses. Is it still a requirement to have a certification partner Advanced Technology (ATP) to order the licenses. I know it took to ISE 1.2 but I did not find anything in the guide of the licenses for 1.3 or 1.4.

  Thanks in advanced for any ideas

  Alex

  Yes - except for the ISE Express Bundle licenses and mobility of the ISE.

  Other license types (Basic, Plus and Apex) are still under the authorized technology provider (ATP) program.

• ISE behind the load balancer

  I have a question about ISE profiling of the servers that are placed behind a load balancer:

  If you have an ISE environment where computers and users are be authenticated and restricted access Machine (MAR) is enabled (so that users can authenticate only on a machine already authenticated), the ISE servers up-to-date with all authentications of succesfull computer manipulated by other servers in the ISE?

  For example:

  There are 2 aircraft of ISE (ISE01 and ISE02) behind a load balancer.

  A user starts the computer and the computer authentication is managed by ISE01 (and the authentication is successful). For the moment, that the user logs on to this computer, the load balancer selects ISE02 to authenticate the user.

  ISE02 will be aware that the computer has been already properly authenticated on ISE01, so that users are able to connect? Or she refuses authentication of the user, because he thinks that the computer is not (yet) authenticated and Machine Access Restrictions is enabled?

  Kind regards

  Bert

  ISE servers are aware of all authentications of succesfull computer manipulated by other servers in the ISE?

  => N°

  they are independent servers that replicate that configuration.

  If a user must always authenticate with the same ISE.

  In addition, a load balancer kills profiling since profiling requires you to cover a portion of the traffic at the ISE

• ISE on the download profile of embarkation process

  Dear all,

  I have a small question about ISE on boarding and the delivery process.

  When the client connect of the SSID, EHT will download the configuration for the client, and will change the configuration of the adapter.

  My question is, verification of the configuration of the client profile happens every time the customer connect? If Yes, the ISE will download the profile whenever the customer connect or not?

  In case the ISE download configuration once and check the configuration each time the customer connect (which makes sense), do we have a cache on the ISE for any customer that is to say that this customer has a correct profile or not? If so, after how long the cache entry should be deleted?

  Kind regards

  Mohammad incredibly

  Hi Mohammad.

  Once that a device is put in service/onboarded this device should not go through the process 'customer provisioning '. Instead, he has to hit a different rule that is placed over your 'customer provisioning' rule at ISE. For example, if your integration is to configure the client to perform EAP - TLS with certificate then once the supplicant device is configured to complete the EAP - TLS and got a certificate then you should have a rule over the rule of integration which checks the EAP - TLS.

  I hope this makes sense. Let me know if you need further clarification.

  Thank you for evaluating useful messages!

• ISE license consumption and freeing licenses [RADIUS]

  Hi people EHT,.

  There are a lot of questions of ISE issued by me in the last time. And guess what - another here.

  I wonder how the ISE license consumption and freeing licenses actually works. At least I have not find any good document or post on it.

  From what I understand, a license (no matter if basic, plus, apex whatever) is consumed based on RADIUS accounting messages.

  Example:

  An endpoint is authenticating and allowed successfully with 802. 1 X without profiling or posture or whatever (simple). The ISE knows that this endpoint must use a base license and basic license consumption is increased by one.

  As soon as the client is disconnected from the network, the n (switch, WLC) sends an accounting stop message to the ISE and the ISE again releases the base license.

  (am I right so far?)

  Assuming that I am just using the example above:

  RADIUS is not say that really reliable. No matter that it uses UDP (which is unreliable), RAY has a mechanism of recognition built in (Accouting request / respone). But this mechanism gives up after a few attempts. Suppose that a client is disconnected, but the message of stop RADIUS is not received by the ISE.

  Fact the endpoint stay forever in the State of the current session and therefore to consume a license forever? (Assume that there is no timer of dot1x re-authentication).

  Or is it a mechanism of 'time-out' for endpoint licences?

  Kind of a side story here:

  I wrote a simple wrapper for the freeradius tool 'eapol_test '. Go Linux applications unique command line EAP (e.g., EAP - TLS) can be issued to a RADIUS server. If the Linux client acts as "supplicant" X 802.1 and authenticator. It's cool to quickly test the availability of the service of an authentication server.

  My simple wrapper for "eapol_test" performs a ping 'EAP' at the time of convergence of measurement and measurement of authentications per second in a lab environment. The wrapper can also change endpoint of each session of RAY MAC. When I do ping EAP in a laboratory of my number of licenses on the ISE exploded, because eapol_test does not deliver messages from accounting RADIUS to EHT :)

  Johannes has soon

  Hi Johannes-

  You're right about the consumption of license:

  Licenses are counted against concurrent, active sessions. An active session is one for which a RADIUS Accounting Start is received but RADIUS Accounting Stop has not yet been received.

  However, in addition to this:

  Note Sessions without RADIUS activity are automatically purged from Active Session list every 5 days or if the endpoint is deleted from the system. 

  This information used in the documentation of ISE 1.x, but for some reason, he is not :) in the 2.x here's the info from 1.2: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-2/installation_guide/ise_ig/ise_app_d_man_license.pdf I hope this helps! Thank you for the useful job evaluation!

• ISE v1.4. Question of MAB

  Hello to everyone.

  I'm quite new with ISE and need help. I'm stuck with Mac Authentication Bypass configuration in my lab environment. So, here's my problem.

  I have a laptop that is connected to a switch port. I have the port of the switch configuration for MAB.

  When the port is for the first time, MAB authentication is unsuccessful, because I have no identity configured in my ISE Server (Administration-> identity-> endpoints is empty). And it is an expected behavior.

  But after authentication fails, I can see that the identity for my laptop AUTOMATICALLY appears in the Administration section-> identity-> endpoints. Then, when I do the close/no.-stop on the switchport the second time, successfully passed the authentication of MAB. I want to avoid this kind of behavior. So the question is, why after authentication attempts my phone appears in the section of the endpoint identities?

  Please, see some attachments.

  I appreciate any help, thanks.

  Don't be confused that it performs authentication, it is supposed to. Every endpoint that attempt to authenticate, will have their mac address created in the database internal endpoints. However do not granted access, unless you have an authorization policy that is not created precisely enough. Usually, if you wan't actually use mab to something, you create a group of endpoint as "printers" and then have an allow rule that corresponds to the Wired_MAB State composed, and identity group "printers", and if your background rule is DenyAccess, access will be allowed only mac addresses in 'printers '.

• ISE 1.4 identity not seen but passes MAB

  Hi guys,.

  I just built a v1.4 ISE server and configured to work with a WLC to provide both auth 802.1 x to a WLAN internal and Central Web Auth for the WLAN comments

  The question I have is my authentication of devices as shown test passes by the newspaper, but never shows up in the internal identity store. Other devices authenticate and appear in the identity store, where I can remove them that force the web authentication process runs again. I have just a device that seems to be in the identity store, but is not visible and cannot be deleted, which means that the device always goes wireless MAB and gains access to the network.

  ISE is version 1.4 with the latest patch applied, WLCs is an external controller 8510 and anchor 5508 comments, the two 8.0.120 running

  Someone at - it ideas? I guess that the MAC address is a database somewhere that needs to be cleaned up somehow, but I can't find any documentation on how to do it. ISE has been restarted, but no change.

  Thank you

  James

  Strange, it looks like ISE is to find the MAC on the shop of endpoint, which is where it should be, there is no other places where this mac address must be found. You say he isn't here, but is this client redirected to the login page of comments? If so, can you connect with a guest account?

  If this isn't there, you should be able to create it manually, if it is actually there, you should get an error message. Could you try that?