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Chapter 3 Installing the Clean Access Manager and Clean Access Server
Troubleshooting the Installation
Verify/Change Current Master Secret on CAM/CAS
Clean Access Managers and Clean Access Servers use a local master secret password to encrypt and
protect important data, like other system passwords. Cisco recommends keeping very accurate records
of assigned master secret passwords to ensure that you are able to fail over to the HA peer CAM/CAS
in an HA deployment. (HA-Secondary CAMs/CASs are not able to assume the “active” role following
a failover event when the master secret passwords are different.) If you suspect that the CAM/CAS
master secret is different from its peer in an HA deployment, you can do the following to verify and/or
change the master secret on CAM/CAS HA peers:
Step 1
Log in to the CLI of the HA-Primary CAM/CAS as “root.”
Step 2
Enter
cat /root/.perfigo/master
and record the master secret signatures for that CAM/CAS.
Step 3
Log in to the CLI of the HA-Secondary CAM/CAS as “root” and enter the same
cat
/root/.perfigo/master
command.
Step 4
If the two CAM/CAS master secret signatures are different, use
service perfigo config
to
“reconfigure” the CAM/CAS with the incorrect master secret, accepting the previous values for all
settings other than the master secret, which, in the case of an HA peer, you specify to match the other
appliance in the HA pair.
a.
Enter
service perfigo stop
on the HA-Secondary CAM/CAS.
b.
Enter
service perfigo stop
on the HA-Primary CAM/CAS.
c.
Enter
service perfigo config
to “reconfigure” the CAM/CAS with the incorrect master secret.
(Once you have completed the initial configuration, you will also need to reboot the appliance.)
d.
Enter
service perfigo start
to bring up the HA-Primary CAM/CAS.
e.
When the HA-Primary CAM/CAS comes back up, enter
service perfigo start
to bring up the
HA-Secondary CAM/CAS.
After approximately 5 minutes, an HA-Secondary CAM automatically synchronizes with the
HA-Primary.
Recover From Corrupted Master Secret
Note
This procedure applies to both standalone and HA CAMs and CASs. In order to use this procedure for
an HA CAM/CAS with a corrupted master secret, you must bring both peers in the HA deployment to
“standalone” state before performing the steps necessary to recover from the corrupted master secret.
If the master secret changes (by using
service perfigo config
, for example) and the CAM/CAS database
is synchronized from a peer CAM/CAS that has a different master secret, the database can become
corrupted rendering the appliance unusable. You can recover from this scenario by going through the
following steps:
Step 1
Log in to the CLI of the CAM/CAS with the corrupted master secret as “root.”
Step 2
Remove
/root/.perfigo/master
file from the affected CAM/CAS.
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