Security: 802.1X Authentication
Properties
Cisco 350, 350X and 550X Series Managed Switches, Firmware Release 2.4, ver 0.4 365
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• Guest VLAN Timeout—Define a time period as either Immediate or enter a value in 
User Defined. This value is used as follows:
After linkup, if the software does not detect the 802.1X supplicant, or the 
authentication has failed, the port is added to the guest VLAN, only after the Guest 
VLAN timeout period has expired.
If the port state changes from Authorized to Not Authorized, the port is added to the 
guest VLAN only after the Guest VLAN timeout has expired.
• Trap Settings—To enable traps, select one of more of the following options:
- 802.1x Authentication Failure Traps—Select to generate a trap if 802.1x 
authentication fails.
- 802.1x Authentication Success Traps—Select to generate a trap if 802.1x 
authentication succeeds.
- MAC Authentication Failure Traps—Select to generate a trap if MAC 
authentication fails.
- MAC Authentication Success Traps—Select to generate a trap if MAC 
authentication succeeds.
- Supplicant Authentication Failure Traps—Select to generate a trap if supplicant 
authentication fails.
- Supplicant Authentication Success Traps—Select to generate a trap if supplicant 
authentication succeeds.
- Web Authentication Failure Traps—Select to generate a trap if Web authentication 
fails.
- Web Authentication Success Traps—Select to generate a trap if Web authentication 
succeeds.
- Web Authentication Quiet Traps—Select to generate a trap if a quiet period 
commences.
The VLAN Authentication Table displays all VLANs, and indicates whether authentication 
has been enabled on them.
STEP  3 Click Apply. The 802.1X properties are written to the Running Configuration file.
To change Enable or Disable authentication on a VLAN, select it, click Edit and select either 
Enable or Disable.