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Chapter 41 Configuring MAC Authentication Bypass
Configuring Agentless Hosts for NAC Auditing with MAB
Installing and Configuring the NAC Audit Server
For information regarding installing and configuring the NAC audit server, refer to the NAC Audit
vendor documentation shipped with the audit server. Ensure that the audit server is physically connected
to the switch before you install and configure it.
Displaying the Agentless Host Posture Tokens
The agentless host is evaluated on the number of vulnerabilities found and their severity levels. This
vulnerability information is taken from the cached audit report, and the posture token is determined by
the evaluation method settings on the NAC audit server.
The agentless host can hold any of the following posture agents:
•
Infected
—When at least one Severity 5 vulnerability is detected. Infected host audit reports are
cached and expire after 5 minutes.
•
Quarantine
—When at least one Severity 4 vulnerability is detected. Quarantine host audit reports
are cached and expire after 10 minutes.
•
Check-up
—When at least one Severity 3 vulnerability is detected. Check-up host audit reports are
cached and expire after 1 hour.
•
Healthy
—When no severity 5, 4, or 3 vulnerabilities are detected. Healthy host audit reports are
cached and expire after 24 hours.
•
Unknown
—When nonexisting and dead hosts do not respond to probes. Unknown host audit reports
are cached and expire after 12 hours.
Note
There will be a delay in traffic because of auditing and the host would hold a transition posture token
during such delay.
This example shows how to display the posture tokens of a MAC authentication bypass-enabled port:
Console> (enable)
show port mac-auth-bypass 6/25
Port Mac-Auth-Bypass State MAC Address Auth-State Vlan
---- ---------------------- ----------- ---------- -------
6/25 Disabled - - 5
Port Termination action Session Timeout Shutdown/Time-Left
---- ------------------- --------------- ------------------
6/25 - 3600 NO -
Port PolicyGroups
---- -----------------------------------------------------
6/25 -
Port Critical Critical-Status
---- ----------- ---------------
6/25 Disabled -
Port Session-id
---- --------------------------------
6/25 000015a90000099a000019ba000003e1
Port Posture -Token Url-Redirect
---- -------------- -------------------
6/25 Healthy http://10.76.255.100:2002