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Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Chapter 32 Configuring RADIUS and
Configuring
Sending Test Messages for Monitoring
You can manually send test messages to monitor a server.
To send the test message to the server, follow these steps:
Password Aging Notification through Server
Password aging notification is initiated when the user authenticates to a Cisco MDS 9000 switch via a
account. The user is notified when a password is about to expire or has expired. If the
password has expired, user is prompted to change the password.
Note
As of Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.2(1), only supports password aging notification. If you
try to use RADIUS servers by enabling this feature, RADIUSs will generate a SYSLOG message and
authentication will fall back to the local database.
Password aging notification facilitates the following:
•
Password change — You can change your password by entering a blank password.
•
Password aging notification — Notifies password aging. Notification happens only if the AAA
server is configured.
•
Password change after expiration — Initiates password change after the old password expires.
Initiation happens from the AAA server.
To enable the password aging option in the AAA server, enter the following command:
aaa authentication login password-aging enable
To determine whether or not password aging notification is enabled or disabled in the AAA server, enter
the following command:
show aaa authentication login password-aging
About Users Specifying a Server at Login
By default, an MDS switch forwards an authentication request to the first server in the server
group. You can configure the switch to allow the user to specify which server to send the
authenticate request. If you enable this feature, the user can log in as
username@hostname
, where the
hostname
is the name of a configured server.
Command
Purpose
switch#
test aaa server
10.10.1.1 test test
Sends a test message to a server using the
default username (test) and password (test).
switch#
test aaa server
10.10.1.1 testuser Ur2Gd2BH
Sends a test message to a server using a
configured test username and password.
A configured username and password is optional (see the
“Configuring Test Username” section on page 32-22
).