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Overview of ACS Remote Agent for Windows

ACS Remote Agent for Windows is an application that integrates

Cisco Secure ACS Solution Engine (ACS SE) with Windows Active Directory.

Because an ACS SE cannot be a member of a Microsoft Windows domain, you must install the remote agent for the authentication. When a windows domain user logon the network, ACS forward all accounting data to the remote agent installed in windows domain environment.

Note: 1. ACS Remote Agent supports only ACS SE—ACS for Windows is not supported.

2. A single ACS Remote is limited to serve five concurrent connecting

Appliances.

System Requirements

ACS Requirements

ACS Remote Agent v4.1 for Windows is for ACS Solution Engine v 4.1.

Other releases of Cisco Secure ACS are not supported.

Hardware Requirements

The computer running ACS Remote Agent for Windows must contain:

Pentium III processor,

256 MB of RAM.

At least 250 MB of free disk space.

Operating System Requirements

The computer running ACS Remote Agent for Windows must use one of the following operating

systems:

Windows 2000 Server, with Service Pack 3 or Service Pack 4 installed.

Windows 2000 Advanced Server:

With Service Pack 3 or Service Pack 4 installed.

Without Microsoft clustering service installed.

Without other features specific to Windows 2000 Advanced Server enabled.

Note We have not tested and cannot support the multiprocessor feature of Windows 2000

Advanced Server. Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is not a supported operating system.

Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition.

Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition.

ACS Remote Agent for Windows 4.1 is also supported on Japanese Operating System (JOS)

Windows 2000 and Windows 2003.

Network Requirements

Your network must meet the following requirements before you begin installing ACS.

The computer running ACS Remote Agent for Windows must be able to ping the ACS Solution

Engines that it supports.

Gateway devices must permit traffic between the computer running ACS Remote Agent for

Windows and the ACS SE. Specifically, the remote agent must receive TCP communication on TCP

ports that you configure in CSAgent.ini. The default TCP ports, if all services are used, are 2004,

2005, 2006, and 2007. The appliance must receive TCP communication on TCP port 2003.

 

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