Configuring RADIUS Accounting

There are four aspects to configuring RADIUS accounting:

State enables or disables RADIUS accounting
Update values allow the specification of the length of the period before accounting updates start and the interval between updates
Establishment values configure a timer setting the length of time before retries, as well as the number of retries, before the switch determines the RADIUS accounting server is down and attempts to establish with the next server in its list.
Server identification provides for the configuration of the RADIUS accounting server IP address and index value. The index determines the order in which the switch will attempt to establish with an accounting server. After setting the index and IP address you are prompted to enter a secret value for this accounting server.

Firmware supports the configuration of multiple RADIUS accounting servers. The lowest index value associated with the server determines the primary server. If the primary server is down, the operational server with the next lowest index value is used. If the switch fails to establish contact with the primary server before a configured timeout, the switch will retry for the configured number of times.

RADIUS Accounting Configuration describes RADIUS accounting configuration.

RADIUS Accounting Configuration

Step	Task	Command(s)
1	Set the minimum interval at which RADIUS accounting sends interim updates.	set radius accounting intervalminimum interval
2	Set the number of seconds between each RADIUS accounting interim update.	set radius accounting updateinterval interval
3	Set the number of times a switch will attempt to contact a RADIUS accounting server.	set radius accounting retries retries
4	Set the amount of time to establish contact with a RADIUS accounting server before timing out.	set radius accounting timeout timeout {index \| all}
5	Configure the RADIUS accounting server.	set radius accounting server {index \| all} ip_address udp-port [server-secret]
6	Enable or disable RADIUS accounting on this switch.	set radius accounting {enable \| disable}
7	Reset RADIUS accounting parameters to default values or clear server definitions on this switch.	clear radius accounting {[server{index \| all}] [retries {index \| all}] [timeout {index \| all}] [intervalminimum] [updateinterval]}
8	Display RADIUS accounting configuration or statistics.	show radius accounting [updateinterval \| intervalminimum \| state \| server {index \| all}]

Published May 2016prev | next

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