Table 276: Port Access Control—Port Summary Fields (continued)
Field
Description
Backend State
The current state of the back-end authentication state machine, which is the
802.1X process that controls the interaction between the 802.1X client on the
local system and the remote authentication server. The state can be one of the
following:
•
Request
•
Response
•
Success
•
Fail
•
Timeout
•
Initialize
•
Idle
Initialize (Icon)
Click the Initialize icon to reset the 802.1X state machine on the associated
interface to the initialization state. Traffic sent to and from the port is blocked
during the authentication process. This icon can be clicked only when the port is
an authenticator and the operating control mode is Auto.
Re-Authenticate (Icon)
Click the Re-Authenticate icon to force the associated interface to restart the
authentication process.
If you change any of the parameters, click
Submit
to apply the changes to the system. If you want the
switch to retain the new values across a power cycle, you must save the configuration.
Port Access Control Port Configuration
Use the Port Access Control Port Configuration page to enable and configure port access control on
one or more ports.
To access this page, click
Security
>
Port Access Control
>
Port Configuration
in the navigation menu.
Use the buttons to perform the following tasks:
•
To configure the port-based access control settings for one or more ports, select each port to
configure and click
Edit
. The same settings are applied to all selected ports.
•
To view additional information about the port-based access control settings for a port, select the
port with the information to view and click
Details
.
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