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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 5.4.0
F5® BIG-IQ® Centralized Management can verify user credentials against your company's RADIUS server. After you set up BIG-IQ to use your RADIUS server, you can add users and user groups authorized by that server.
Before integrating BIG-IQ with your RADIUS server for authentication and authorization
Before you set up BIG-IQ® Centralized Management for authentication and authorization with your RADIUS server, gather the following information.
Required Information | This is | For my RADIUS server |
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Name | The name of your RADIUS server. | |
Host | The IP address or host name of your RADIUS server. | |
Port | The port number of your RADIUS server. | |
Secret | The case-sensitive text string used to validate communication. | |
Test user name and password | A user name and password, authenticated on your RADIUS server. | |
Key and Value properties for your RADIUS server | The RADIUS server uses this for authentication and encryption. |
Set up BIG-IQ to use my RADIUS server for user authentication
You can set up BIG-IQ to use your company's RADIUS server. You can add two additional backup RADIUS servers in case the primary server is not available for authentication.
Update BIG-IQ dictionary with vendor-specific RADIUS attributes
Some RADIUS deployments include non-standard, vendor-specific attributes in the dictionary files. For these deployments, you must update the BIG-IQ system's default dictionary.
- Copy the TinyRadius .jar file from the BIG-IQ system.
- Extract the contents of the TinyRadius .jar file.
- Update the file org/tinyradius/dictionary/default_dictionary file, by adding the vendor-specific attributes.
- Repack the contents into a new .jar file.
- Replace the old TinyRadius .jar on each BIG-IQ system with the new TinyRadius .jar file you created in step 4.
For example: