TACACS+ Sensor

TACACS+ provides access control for routers, network access servers, and networked computing devices via one or more centralized servers. TACACS+ provides separate authentication, authorization, and accounting services.

The TACACS+ sensor checks the server connectivity and tries to authenticate a specified user. Sensor requires - TACACS server shared secret - used for data encryption - user (with password) to authenticate

The sensor should be added to the TACACS+ server machine.

Alerts:
  • alert on connection error
  • alert when user authentication failed
Counters
  • Response time - total execution time of all queries in the TACACS session

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