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May 22, 2014

How to configure TACACS+ on Cisco ACS 5.3 for authenticating administrative users on LTM 11.2.0?

Hello,   I was desperate to get the Tacacs+ working on Cisco ACS for LTM 11.2.0. However I was not be able to find a direct answer.   There is my configuration on LTM ->System -> Users -> Auth...
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May 23, 2014

Followed your instruction, it now worked perfectly. Thank you so much, Cory!

 

One more question, do the Assigned Privilege Level and Max Privilege Level settings on ACS matter? Those are usually for Cisco switches/routers, not sure if F5 takes those attributes too?

 

  • Cory_50405's avatar
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    May 23, 2014
    F5 doesn't care about those settings, but we also have Cisco devices to manage.
  • XINGYU_99486's avatar
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    May 23, 2014
    I see. I would create separate Shell Profiles for F5, Cisco, HP, Brocade ... Thanks for your help!
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    May 23, 2014
    Ideally I would too. Sometimes we're forced to engineer around what already exists.
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    Mar 05, 2015
    Cory, what would happen when the TACACS server is down?