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Can you authenticate users from 2 different AAA-servers for one specific tunnel-group?

ajamua
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I need to authenticate users from two separate AD LDAP databases on the same tunnel-group. I would like them to use the same tunnel-group and thereby using the  same group-alias. I tried creating a new aaa-server group and putting both LDAP servers into group but apparently the ASA does not roll through the separate servers in the aaa-server group and will stop if the first server states that the authentication failed.

I also tried assigning multiple aaa-server groups into the tunnel-group authentication-server-group but that also did not work. I finally tried to create a separate tunnel-group and assigning it the same group-alias but the ASA will not allow me to assign the same group-alias to different tunnel-group. What is the best way to accomplish this without having to create a new group-alias that will show up and possible confuse the dumb users requiring this access? Please help.

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Marvin Rhoads
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If you don't want ANY drop down I believe you can do it in a kludgy sort of way.

Eliminate all the group aliases (which are used to populate the dropdown) and make a local database of the users for the sole purpose of assigning / restricting them to a non-default tunnel-group which authenticates to the secondary LDAP server. 

You can also send out a non-published URL that points to a second tunnel-group not in the dropdown.

Of course, we can accomplish this if the AAA server is ISE. ISE 1.3 can authenticate users to multiple AD domains (with or without trust relationships) or a single domain with multiple join points in the Forest.

The ISE answer makes me wonder - could you establish trust between the domains and authenticate users that way?