Chapter 6. Menu Options
Remote Console. If there is no activity for half an hour your connection to the ASMI module will be
terminated and closed.
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Server: enter either the IP address or the hostname of the RADIUS Server to connect to. If you use the
hostname DNS has to be configured and enabled.
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Shared Secret: a shared secret is a text string that serves as a password between the RADIUS client
and RADIUS server. In this case the ASMI module acts as a RADIUS client. A shared secret is used
to verify that RADIUS messages are sent by a RADIUS-enabled device that is configured with the
same shared secret and to verify that the RADIUS message has not been modified in transit (message
integrity). For the shared secret you can use any standard alphanumeric and special characters. A
shared secret may consist of up to 128 characters in length and may contain both lowercase and
uppercase letters (A-Z,a-z), numerals (0-9) and other symbols (all characters not defined as letters or
numerals) such as an exclamation mark (!) or an asterisk (*).
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Authentication Port: the port the RADIUS server uses to listen for authentication requests. The default
value is #1812.
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Accounting Port: the port the RADIUS server uses to listen for accounting requests.
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Timeout: sets the request TTL (time-to-live) in seconds. The TTL is the time to wait for the
completion of the request. If the request job is not completed within this interval of time it is
cancelled. The default value is 1 second.
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Retries: sets the number of retries when a request cannot be completed. The default value is to retry 3
times.
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Global Authentication Type: sets the authentication protocol. This can be the unencrypted PAP
(Password Authentication Protocol) or the encrypted CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol).
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