AAA, NAC, Guest Access & BYOD

This method will be utilizing the curl utility to remotely download ClearPass backups. Other tools such as wget will also work but require a different syntax.

A brief explanation of the flags used in the following commands:

-k = ignore certificate warnings, useful for self-signed certificate servers
-c = create a cookie jar to store cookies created by this request
-d = post data to requested page
-b = use a cookie jar's cookies when making this request
--output = save output from request to specified file

The first command will login to ClearPass and save the session cookie to the /tmp/cjar file. The second command will use the cookie from the first command to request an automated backup file be saved to /tmp/cppm_backup.tar.gz.

[root@localhost mercury]# curl -k -c /tmp/cjar -d "username=admin" -d "password=eTIPS123" https://10.162.117.20/tips/tipsLoginSubmit.action

[root@localhost mercury]# curl -k -b /tmp/cjar --output /tmp/cppm_backup.tar.gz https://10.162.117.20/tips/tipsExport.action?type=SharedFile_AutoBackup\&contextData=auto-backup-tips-2013-08-16-01-10-01.tar.gz

Note that the filename specified in the second command "auto-backup-tips-2013-08-16-01-10-01.tar.gz" will need to be changed to your current timestamp. For automation the use of the Linux date command is capable of producing this same timestamp format.