ACS 4.2 questions

[sgjr82841]

Guys,

Can some one help in answering below questions related to ACS 4.2?

1 ) : Is it possible to do authentication with one ACS server while authorization with another ACS? Use case is if the user authenticated to one ACS server and then switch loses the connectivity to this ACS. Now command authorization requests will go to another ACS server since switch is not able to communicate to the 1st ACS.

2): How can the local database sync be acheived in distributed ACS deployments?

3): Are the accounting records are sync between different ACS? In other words can accounting be centeralised with ACS4.2

[Javier Henderson]

1) Yes.

2) You set up ACS database replication from one primary to one or more secondary servers. The replication can take place following a schedule you can configure, go to System Configuration -> ACS Database Replication

3) Accounting data will not be replicated between ACS servers, but you can have all of the ACS servers log to either a central ACS server, or a syslog server (or both). Another option available is to log to an ODBC server.