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December 4th, 2019 10:00

Dell switches on a Cisco network

My employer purchased 3 new switches (1-s3048/2-s4048) that are Dell to go along with the new server's we purchased from Dell. I am able to gain connectivity to the network, ping back and forth, and I've even accessed a port (on the Dell) via my laptop and am able to connect to other switches (Cisco) remotely via ssh. However, when I attempt to connect the Dell switches via ssh/putty nothing happens. I get the following log message below on the Dell switch:

 

*Login Failure for user admin on line vty 0. *

 

Has anyone experienced this?  I can't post my configs because I work in a secure closed network. I think I tried everything I can think of the last three days. Also, I am authenticating through a Radius server. 

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December 4th, 2019 11:00

Hi,

Were the steps for SSH on Page 903 done? https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/smartfabric-os10-5-0_en-us.pdf

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December 4th, 2019 12:00

I do believe I did most of these things, like enable passwords and generate the keys. However, I will have to go through this list and ensure I did perform these steps. 

When I attempt to access through putty, I am asked for login name. When I enter my username at the login prompt and press enter, it does nothing. After about 40 seconds or so it times out and a login failure message is displayed in the log. 

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December 4th, 2019 12:00

Yep, did all these things. I think my problem lies in my RADIUS server. Is there something different I have to do different there in NPS vrs what I would for cisco? 

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December 5th, 2019 11:00

Was able to the the s3048 working using the information posed here:

https://www.darylhunter.me/blog/2010/06/dell-powerconnect-radius-windows-server-2008-nps.html

However, doesn't seem to want to work for the s4048. Thoughts? 

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December 6th, 2019 07:00

Try this
radius-server host {IP} key {key} timeout 5
aaa authentication login RadiusList radius local
line vtty 0 2
login authentication RadiusList

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December 11th, 2019 07:00

No, the information from the guide did not. Will try what you suggested in your latter post today. 

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January 13th, 2020 12:00

Talk with you about this RADIUS issue  a while ago, hope you are still monitoring this post. Here is the log output. 

Here are the configs from one of the switches. Was able to test things out this afternoon. 
 
Jan  7 20:36:20.804 UTC %STKUNIT1-M:CP %SEC-3-LOGIN_FAILURE: Login failure for user #myname# on line vty0 ( laptop ip )
Jan  7 20:36:11.817 UTC %STKUNIT1-M:CP %SEC-3-AUTHENTICATION_FAILURE: Authentication failure on vty0 (laptop ip) for method "local" user "me"
Jan  7 20:36:11.717 UTC : RADIUS: Accounting failed. radCode = 0 radErrorCode = 4
Jan  7 20:36:11.616 UTC : RADIUS: Authentication failed. radCode = 0 radErrorCode = 4
Jan  7 20:36:11.506 UTC %STKUNIT1-M:CP %RADIUS-4-RAD_SERVER_UNREACHABLE: RAD0: Unable to authenticate with Radius.
Radius servers may not be reachable.
Jan  7 20:36:11.396 UTC : RADIUS: Status for id 76 - Reached retry limit
Jan  7 20:36:11.287 UTC : RADIUS: Err Callback - Request Handle: 0x4c, Error Code: 4
Jan  7 20:35:59.489 UTC : RADIUS: Retransmit id 76
Jan  7 20:35:48.000 UTC : RADIUS: Retransmit id 76
Jan  7 20:35:36.501 UTC : RADIUS: Retransmit id 76
Jan  7 20:35:25.733 UTC :       Attribute  2    length 16       Password : *****
Jan  7 20:35:25.623 UTC :       Attribute  1    length 10       User Name : mine
Jan  7 20:35:25.513 UTC :       Attribute 31    length 12       Calling-station-id : laptop
Jan  7 20:35:25.403 UTC :       Attribute  5    length  4       NAS Port : 0
Jan  7 20:35:25.293 UTC :       Attribute 61    length  4       NAS Port type : 5
Jan  7 20:35:25.182 UTC :       Attribute  4    length  4       #NAS IP Address : switch loopback ip#
Jan  7 20:35:25.072 UTC : RADIUS: Initial Transmit id 76, code 1, len 82, Access-Request
Jan  7 20:35:24.962 UTC : RADIUS: Calling Station ID = laptop ip
Jan  7 20:35:24.855 UTC : RADIUS: Try server #ip address#:1812 for id 76
Jan  7 20:34:38.348 UTC %STKUNIT1-M:CP %SEC-3-LOGIN_FAILURE: Login failure for user me on line vty0 ( laptop ip )
Jan  7 20:34:38.246 UTC %STKUNIT1-M:CP %SSH-6-CONNECTION: Connection closed by #laptop ip#
Jan  7 20:33:27.177 UTC %STKUNIT1-M:CP %SEC-5-LOGOUT: Exec session is terminated for user admin on line vty0 ( laptop )
(Reason : Admin Reset)
Jan  7 20:33:14.886 UTC %STKUNIT1-M:CP %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from vty0 ( laptop ip )by admin
s3048#


Suecurity Log from Event viewer from NPS

An account was logged off.

Subject:
Security ID: domain
Account Name: me
Account Domain: name
Logon ID: 0x1C928F2B

Logon Type: 3

This event is generated when a logon session is destroyed. It may be positively correlated with a logon event using the
Logon ID value. Logon IDs are only unique between reboots on the same computer.
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