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Failover Bundles
If you ordered a Failover Bundle, you will receive two physical Cisco NAC Appliances, and you will
need to perform the initial configuration on each machine as described in this guide. After initial
configuration is complete, configure High Availability (HA) using the CAM or CAS web console and
physically connect the appliances to create the HA pair. Refer to the “Configuring High Availability
(HA)” chapter of the latest
Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Manager Installation and
Configuration Guide, Release 4.5(1)
for CAM HA configuration details and
Cisco NAC Appliance -
Clean Access Server Installation and Configuration Guide, Release 4.5(1)
for CAS HA configuration
details.
Note
When connecting high availability (failover) pairs via serial cable, BIOS redirection to the
serial port must be disabled for NAC-3300 series appliances. Refer to the
“Disable BIOS
Redirection for Serial HA (Failover) Connections”
section of the
Supported Hardware and
System Requirements for Cisco NAC Appliance (Cisco Clean Access)
for details.
Equipment Required
You need to supply a workstation (PC or laptop) and keyboard/monitor/mouse to run the Cisco NAC
Appliance Configuration Utility on the appliance. Once the initial configuration is complete, you will
need a standard (straight-through) Ethernet Category 5 network cable with RJ-45 connectors to
connect the interfaces of the Cisco NAC Appliance to the network (eth0 for the CAM; eth0 and eth1
for the CAS). You will need a crossover RJ-45 Ethernet cable to connect HA-pair appliances together.
The Cisco NAC Appliance Hardware Summary, page 8 provides interface details for each model.
Rack Mounting
The Cisco NAC Appliance occupies one rack unit (1U). A rack-mounting kit is included in the
shipment. For rack-mounting information and instructions, refer to the
1U Rack Hardware
Installation Instructions
document from HP included in the shipping box.
Cisco NAC Appliance Licensing
You need at least 1 Clean Access Manager license and 1 Clean Access Server license for your Cisco
NAC Appliance system to work. Both licenses are installed via the administration web console. For
Out-of-Band (OOB) deployments, you must add both the OOB CAS license and the CAS as an
Out-of-Band device to the CAM to access the OOB Management module of the CAM web console.
