Operation Manual – AAA & RADIUS & HWTACACS & EAD 
Quidway S5600 Series Ethernet Switches-Release 1510 
Chapter 1  AAA & RADIUS & HWTACACS
 Configuration
 
Huawei Technologies Proprietary 
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Operation  Command  Description 
Set a shared key 
for the 
HWTACACS 
accounting/authen
tication/authorizati
on packets 
key  {  accounting | 
authorization | 
authentication } string 
Required 
By default, the TACACS server 
does not have a key. 
 
1.5.6  Configuring the Attributes for Data to be Sent to TACACS Servers 
Table 1-29 Configure the attributes for data to be sent to TACACS servers 
Operation  Command  Description 
Enter system 
view 
system-view 
— 
Create a 
HWTACACS 
scheme and 
enter its view 
hwtacacs scheme 
hwtacacs-scheme-name 
Required 
By default, no HWTACACS 
scheme exists. 
Set the format 
of the user 
names to be 
sent to 
TACACS 
servers 
user-name-format 
{ with-domain | 
without-domain } 
Optional 
By default, the user names 
sent from the switch to 
TACACS servers carry ISP 
domain names. 
data-flow-format data { byte | 
giga-byte  | kilo-byte | 
ega-byte } 
m
Set the units of 
measure for 
data flows sent 
to TACACS 
servers 
data-flow-format packet 
{ giga-packet | kilo-packet | 
mega-packet | one-packet } 
Optional 
By default, in a TACACS 
scheme, the unit of measure 
for data is byte and that for 
packets is one-packet. 
HWTACACS view 
nas-ip ip-address 
Set the source 
IP address 
used by the 
switch to send 
HWTACACS 
packets 
System view 
hwtacacs nas-ip ip-address 
Optional 
By default, no source IP 
address is specified; the IP 
address of the outbound 
interface is used as the source 
IP address.