dc auth-history
Description
Get the complete authentication timeline for a specific MAC address. Shows all authentication attempts (both passed and failed) in chronological order. Essential for troubleshooting intermittent connectivity issues.
Options
| Option | Default | Description |
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Hours to look back |
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Maximum records to return |
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Use the global
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Usage
# Default: last 48 hours
netapi ise dc auth-history 3C:EC:EF:43:50:42
# Extended history (1 week)
netapi ise dc auth-history 3C:EC:EF:43:50:42 --hours 168
# More records
netapi ise dc auth-history 3C:EC:EF:43:50:42 --limit 100
# JSON output
netapi ise dc --format json auth-history 3C:EC:EF:43:50:42
Sample Output
Table Output (default)
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────── Auth History ────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 9C:83:06:CE:89:46 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Time ┃ Status ┃ Method ┃ Policy Set ┃ AuthZ Profile ┃ NAD ┃ Failure Reason ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 2026-01-26 14:50:38 │ FAILED │ mab │ HomeRF WPA2PSK │ - │ 10.50.1.40 │ 22056 Subject not │
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ found in the appl... │
└─────────────────────┴────────┴────────┴────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────┴────────────────────────┘
0 passed | 1 failed | 1 total
Successful EAP-TLS Authentication
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────── Auth History ────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 3C:EC:EF:43:50:42 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ Time ┃ Status ┃ Method ┃ Policy Set ┃ AuthZ Profile ┃ NAD ┃ Fail ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩
│ 2026-01-26 10:45:12 │ PASSED │ eap-tls │ Wired Dot1X Closed │ Domus_Secure_Profile │ 10.50.1.10 │ - │
│ 2026-01-26 08:15:00 │ PASSED │ eap-tls │ Wired Dot1X Closed │ Domus_Secure_Profile │ 10.50.1.10 │ - │
│ 2026-01-25 17:30:45 │ PASSED │ eap-tls │ Wired Dot1X Closed │ Domus_Secure_Profile │ 10.50.1.10 │ - │
└─────────────────────┴────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴────────────┴───────┘
3 passed | 0 failed | 3 total
Use Cases
Troubleshooting Intermittent Issues
# Look for patterns in failures
netapi ise dc auth-history 3C:EC:EF:43:50:42 --hours 72
Questions to answer:
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Are failures clustered at certain times?
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Do failures precede successes (retry working)?
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Different NAS IPs showing different patterns?
Verify Policy Change Effect
# After changing auth policy, verify it's working
# Look for the new auth profile in recent attempts
netapi ise dc auth-history 3C:EC:EF:43:50:42 --hours 1