Adding static routes for Cisco NAC Manager and Profiler

The NAC Manager and Profiler don't have a documented way of adding a static route, in addition to the default gateway. In most cases this is fine because all traffic follows the default gateway. When doing a pilot or setting up a lab environment there's a greater possibility of needing a static route to direct some traffic another direction than the default gateway.

Since the NAC products are built on Fedora Core, you can use the standard way of adding default routes within Fedora. Modifying the routing table requires root access, so make sure you are logged in as root or type "su -" to elevate to root privileges. Assuming eth0 is used for the traffic, you would create a file called "route-eth0" in the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts" directory. Here's an example of the contents of the file assuming you want to route the 192.168.0.0/16 subnet to 10.1.1.110

GATEWAY0=10.1.1.110
NETMASK0=255.255.0.0
ADDRESS0=192.168.0.0

As you probably figured out, you can add additional entries for GATEWAY1, NETMASK1, and ADDRESS1 to add additional static routes.

Once you've created this file, you can apply it in one of two ways. The safest way is to reboot the device with "shutdown -r now". The second way is to just restart the routing process with "service network restart"