AnyConnect 4 – Plus and Apex Licensing Explained
May11

AnyConnect 4 – Plus and Apex Licensing Explained

KB ID 0001013  Problem (Updated 11/05/21) Before version 4 we simply had AnyConnect Essentials and Premium licensing, now we have Plus and Apex licensing. AnyConnect Plus and Apex There are in fact three licensing options; Cisco AnyConnect Plus Subscription Licenses Cisco AnyConnect Plus Perpetual Licenses Cisco AnyConnect Apex Subscription Licenses NEW VPN Only perpetual Licences Plus and Apex Contain; AnyConnect PLUS (Cisco pitch...

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AnyConnect Group Authentication With Cisco ISE and Downloadable ACLs (Part 2)
Feb09

AnyConnect Group Authentication With Cisco ISE and Downloadable ACLs (Part 2)

KB ID 0001156  Problem Carrying on from PART 1 Solution Add  > Create Before. Edit the Policy Giv the policy set a name and description > Create a new condition. Set Description to Device Type. Equals > All Device Types (The Device Group You Created Above). Add attribute value. Set Description to RADIUS. NAS-Port-Type-[61]. Equals  > Virtual. Edit the Authentication Policy. Change the identity source to the the identity...

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Securing Network Device Access With Cisco ACS  (and Active Directory)
Nov17

Securing Network Device Access With Cisco ACS (and Active Directory)

KB ID 0000942 Problem For network identification I have tended to use RADIUS (in a Windows NPS or IAS flavour), in the past. I turned my back on Cisco TACACS+ back in my ‘Studying for CCNA’ days, because back then it was clunky and awful. I have a client that will be installing ACS in the near future, so I thought I would take a look at it again, and was surprised at how much more polished it is. As Cisco plans to roll ACS...

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Cisco ISE NFR Appliance Setup
Nov17

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....

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Cisco ISE – Upgrading
Nov17

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...

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