Cisco ISE NFR Appliance Setup
KB ID 0001066 Problem The Cisco ISE NFR appliance is for demos and test bench use, I’m currently building a test lab for ISE so I spun a copy up. I looked at the associated ReadMe.pdf for instructions on the basic setup, and found a hyper-link to the instructions, that didn’t work! bah. Solution The appliance comes as an OVA file for importation into vSphere/ESX, I’m assuming you have already imported the appliance....
Cisco ISE – Upgrading
KB ID 0001071 Problem Just as I was hunting around for an NFR version of Cisco ISE 1.3, they released 1.4. I wasn’t sure if I could upgrade my NFR version without breaking it so I thought I would ‘have a go’. Solution If you read the documentation for the upgrade of 1.2 to 1.4, I suggest you skip straight to the tasks to do AFTER upgrade, as it has a habit of resetting things back to default, best to make sure you...
Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows Part One (Active Directory Integration)
KB ID 0001074 Problem To carry out this procedure you should have your ISE appliance deployed, with all the basic settings on it. Over the next few articles I’m going to connect the ISE appliance to Active Directory, then configure the ISE Appliance for 802.1x. Configure RADIUS on both the appliance, and on my Cisco Switches. Then finally configure Windows Group Policy to enable the clients to authenticate to 802.1x. Solution 1....
Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows Part Two – Configuring 802.1x Policies
KB ID 0001075 D Problem Back in Part One, we joined Cisco ISE to Active Directory, now we we will take the built in ISE policies and change them. This will allow our clients to authenticate, with the correct protocols. Solution 1. By default ISE will use pretty much any available protocol, we are going to use PEAP, although I’m also going to allow EAP-TLS (it’s more secure and if I start rolling out certificates I’ve...
Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With WindowsPart Three – Adding Network Devices (Authenticators)
KB ID 0001077 Problem Back in Part Two we configured the specific 802.1x policies in Cisco ISE. Remember with 802.1x it is a three tier system there is a supplicant, (a machine that wants to authenticate), the Authenticator, (the device the supplicant connect to, in our case a switch), and finally an Authentication server (Cisco ISE). Below I will add our switch into ISE, as a RADIUS device and create some groups, and locations for...