I need some help on ACS for a programmers

[allaytani2]

Hi all,

Kindly I need someone to guide me how to get the below information for our programmers, our company now they need to integrate our billing system

With ACS which already running. the setup running is :

We have cisco Access points managed by Access controllers with two SSIDs ( USERS , GUESTS ) and the access controller is configured as Client on ACS.

We need to make new setup for Guests, any Guest want to access to Guest wireless network (SSID: GUESTS) I need to create the account on Billing system, our programmers asking me to provide them the DB structure of ACS 5.0 and all information needs for integration between the billing system and the ACS.

Note: we already have another SSID (USERS) for company users and it is running fine and accounts managed directy by ACS ( no need to change the setup).

Goals: The billing system will create the Guest accounts and the account information to be automaticly added to our ACS.

I realy don't know more about ACS and this requirements.

Anyone can help me to acheive this goals.

Regards

[jrabinow]

The best way to programmatically control the internal users is through the REST capabilities. From ACS 5.3 and onwards there is a REST interface available that can be used to manage (Create / Read / Update / Delete ) Internal user definitions.

[allaytani2]

Hi jrabinow,

Thanks for reply, it means I have to upgrade the ACS 5.0 to 5.3 version.

Is this option allow to integrate with third party application like billing system?

Regards

[Amjad Abdullah]

Jack:

Yes you can any program to do tasks with ACS.

Look into this:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.3/sdk/cli_imp_exp.html

There seems no developer's guide for ACS 5.0. I think you have to upgrde anyway preferably to 5.3 or 5.4.

HTH

Amjad

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[jrabinow]

Yes. The REST support for user definitions was introduced in ACS 5.3 and so need to upgrade to at least that version for this support. If you are going to upgrade I would recommend to upgrade to ACS 5.4 that is latest build

[allaytani2]

Dear All,

Thanks alot, is the procedude for upgrading ACS 5.0 to 5.4 is free and is it normal to do it direcdtly to 5.4?

Any step by step tutorial can help to do it?

Regards