ISE compatibility with 4500R

[yoshipower]

Hi,

I'd like to deploy ISE on my network and I have two big 4500R switches : a 4510R and a 4507R.

A Cisco vendor told me that these last are incompatible with ISE and that I need to buy two 4500E.

When I see the price of those products i'm a bit suspiscious, since I've read on that page :

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ise/1.1.1/compatibility/ise_sdt.html#wp55038

Device	Minimum OS Version	MAB	802.1X	Web Auth		Session CoA	VLAN	DACL	SGA	IOS Sensor
				CWA	LWA

Catalyst 4500

IOS v12.2(54)SG1

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

The only thing is that the minimum RAM for the version 12.2(54)SG1 is not present because it's 64Mb and those models have 32Mb.

If I buy RAM and update IOS, will ISE work properly on those devices ?

Thank you for your further answers !

[yoshipower]

Erratum : i was talking about Flash memory and not RAM !

[Richard Atkin]

I don't see why not, I expect it will come down to what Supervisor you have in the chassis and whether or not that supervisor will support the required version of IOS..

[yoshipower]

Here's a little update : the switches have WS-X4516 Supervisor cards.

I'm looking closely to that document :

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps4324/product_data_sheet09186a00801fcaba_ps2797_Products_Data_Sheet.html

And everything seems to be OK for me. Do you have any further information ?

[Venkatesh Attuluri · Accepted solution]

Cisco catalyst 4500 should have Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E or Supervisor Engine 6-E and Supervisor Engine 6L-E for ISE to support.

Cisco Catalyst 4000 Series	Cisco Catalyst 4500   Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E	• Critical Voice VLAN • MAC Move/Replace • dACL enhancement • SXP • CoA • Device sensor • MACsec	Cisco IOS-XE   Software Release 3.3.0SG or 15.1(1)SG
	Cisco Catalyst 4500   Supervisor Engine 6-E and Supervisor Engine 6L-E	• Critical Voice VLAN • MAC Move/Replace • dACL enhancement • SXP • Device sensor • CoA	Cisco IOS-XE   Software Release 3.2.2SG or 15.0(2)SG2

[yoshipower]

Thank you for your answer Venkatesh Attulluri.

Can you give me the source of your documentation ? I'd like to browse it.

Thanks !