Setup Authentication

overview nile supports radius for authentication radius (remote authentication dial in user service) is a client server protocol and software that enables remote access servers to communicate with a central server to authenticate dial in users and authorize their access to the requested system or service prerequisites ensure that you have defined the service areas ensure that you have the ip address of all the radius servers you want to use in your enterprise ensure that there is a route from the radius server to your core router/firewall which is going to connect to the nile service gateway identify the shared secret which will be configured on the nile portal configuring authentication login to the nile portal and click on the network setup button from the left side navigation pane click on authentication click on the "+" sign under the authentication section to configure the radius server name specify the name you would like to use for the radius server port specify the port used by the radius server geo scope select the locations which will use this radius server to authenticate the clients host specify the ip address of the primary radius server under host 1 host2 and later are used as secondary radius servers for failover shared secret enter the secret key here wired mac auth (optional) if the radius server is also going to authenticate (mac auth bypass) the wired devices, you can check this box guest portal url (optional) this is the static url you can input for a radius server if you don't input the url here, nile will use the dynamic url received from the radius server click 'save' to complete configuration