Chapter5.Deploying Cisco Secure Access Control Server for Windows Server

Chapter 5. Deploying Cisco Secure Access Control Server for Windows Server

In this chapter, you learn the following topics:

• What is ACS?

• How to obtain ACS

• Requirements to run ACS

• Installing ACS

• Reinstalling ACS

• Positioning ACS

Welcome to Cisco Secure Access Control Server, authentication, authorization, and accounting management. In today's networks, it's not good enough to simply install a network; you must secure it as well. As you progress through this book, you learn how to deploy and manage a Cisco Secure Access Control Server (CSACS). You also examine some working examples that can be used as a guideline in your day-to-day management of ACS.

In this chapter, you prepare for and deploy an ACS device in your network. You learn where to obtain the ACS software, the required resources, and the process of installing ACS on a server in your network.