ANM 4.2 Tacacs authentication

[lcduncan]

The documentation for configuring Tacacs authentication at this link (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/application_networking_manager/4.2/user/guide/UG_admin.html#wp1267519) states the following:

Note For  the ACE to properly perform user authentication using a TACACS+ server,  the username and password must be identical on both ANM and the TACACS+  server.

If the user id and password have to be the same, what is the point of using Tacacs for authentication?  Someone tell me that I can use a TACACS+ server without being forced to keep the user id and password synched between ANM and Tacacs.

[mwinnett]

You are right, this is incorrect. I opened defect CSCto56003 to get this addressed. Using tacacs there is no requirement to set user password on the anm side. The doc will be corrected. Thanks for pointing this out.

Matthew

[mwinnett]

This has now been corrected

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/application_networking_manager/4.2/user/guide/UG_admin.html#wp1275208

Matthew