WLC 5508 AD authentication for management

[Nicholas Hughes]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to set up a 5508 to authenticate to AD for management.  Currently, all of our Cisco devices authenticate to AD through NPS running on a windows 2008 server and if the server is unavailable, they failover to local authentication.  I'd like to do this on our new controller but I can't seem to find the correct info on how to do this, if it can.  All my searches result in instructions on how to authenticate wireless users.

Thanks

[George Stefanick · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can via NPS (Radius) which then ties into AD. Here is a Cisco exmaple document:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080782507.shtml

I hope this helps...

[Nicholas Hughes]

That did help.  Thanks.  Looks like I had everything configured correctly except for the service-type.  We had the service-type set as login.  When I found out that the controller needed it to be administrative, I changed it and it works now.  Thanks a ton!

[George Stefanick]

Great I am glad everything worked out and thank you for the supporting the CSC rating system!