How to install Cisco ACS(access control server)
Following installation is a Cisco Secure ACS 5.4 installation on a VMware workstation. The purpose of this lesson is only to learn how to install Cisco Secure ACS 5.4 installation and how to connect it from other machines using Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
If you know the concepts of virtualization, the following steps are almost identical in different virtualization platforms.
Create a Virtual Machine for Cisco Secure ACS 5.4
Step 1: Click “File” menu in VMware workstation and select “New Virtual Machine…” from the “File” menu.
Step 2: In “New Virtual Machine Wizard”, click “Next”.
Step 3: In VMware virtual machine hardware compatibility page, select the required compatibility. I have selected the default values in this case. Click “Next”.
Step 4: In the “Guest Operating System Installation” screen, select “I will install the operating system later” and click “Next”.
Step 5: in the “pick out a visitor operating machine” display, select linux as the guest working device and model as centos, as proven under. Click “next”.
Step 6: in “call the digital gadget” page, enter the call of the brand new digital device and choose the region to save the digital machine.
This screen and direction place may also look exceptional in case you are the usage of a home windows running gadget. Enter the name and direction in step with your necessities. The name which i have given in “cisco acs” and the direction is /home/jajish/vmware/ciscoacs. Bear in mind, home windows document device hierarchy is specific than linux document device hierarchy.
Click “next”.
Step 7: choose the digital system processor associated settings. Click on “next”.
Step 8: in “menory for the virtual device” display, pick the reminiscence for the new digital device. I have decided on 2 gb for the cisco relaxed acs 5.Four digital machine. Click on “next”.
Step 9: In “Network Type” screen. select “Use bridged networking”. Bridged networking will allow the virtual machine to use its IP address and to reach the outside network using Host machine’s network card.
Step 10: In “Select I/O Controller Types” page, select the default settings and Click “Next”.
Step 11: In “Select a Disk” screen, select “Create a new virtual disk” and Click “Next”.
Step 12: In “Select a Disk Type” page, select “SCSI” and Click “Next”.
Step 13: In “Specify Disk Capacity” page, enter the capacity of Virtual Hard Disk required. Click “Next”.
Step 14: In “Specify Disk File” page, select the name of the virtual hard disk file. Click “Next”.
Step 15: In “Ready to Create Virtual Machine” screen, you can review your selections. Click “Finish” to create virtual machine for installing Cisco Secure ACS 5.4.
Step 16: You can now see the success message stating that the virtual machine is created, as shown below. You have susccesfully created a VMware virtual machine.