Authentication services
Using an Active Directory server
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Support for regular expressions in realm names
Standard regular expressions can be used in realm names. For example:
Using an Active Directory server
Active Directory is the Windows service that is used by many organizations for user
authentication. The controller can communicate with an Active Directory server to
authenticate user login credentials and retrieve configurations settings (attributes) that are
applied to a user’s session.
An active directory server can be used to support the following authentication types:
Supported protocols
EAP-PEAP
EAP-TLS
EAP-TTLS: Requires that client stations are configured to use MS-CHAP or MS-CHAP-V2.
Expression Matches
mycompany[1-3].com mycompany1.com
mycompany2.com
mycompany3.com
.*mycompany.com Matches mycompany.com with any number of characters in
front of it. For example: headoffice.mycompany.com or
server-mycompany.com.
.*\.mycompany.com Matches with any number of characters in front of it. For
example: headoffice.mycompany.com or
server.mycompany.com, but not server-mycompany.com.
Service For details, see ...
802.1X (VSC) 802.1X authentication on page 10-8
MAC-based (Global) MAC-based authentication on page 10-14
MAC-based (VSC) MAC-based authentication on page 10-14
HTML-based HTML-based authentication on page 10-22
VPN-based VPN-based authentication on page 10-24