Specifications

Chapter 7: RADIUS Accounting
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Defining a RADIUS Accounting Server
To define a new RADIUS accounting server:
1. Click the User Authentication, Authentication Servers tab.
2. Select External RADIUS Accounting from the Create drop-down list on the User
authentication page.
The New RADIUS Accounting page appears as shown in Figure 7-1.
3. The Enable server checkbox is marked by default to make the external server
available for RADIUS accounting activity. Clearing the checkbox makes the server
unavailable.
4. Enter a meaningful name for the external RADIUS accounting server in the Name
field.
5. Enter the external RADIUS accounting server's IP address or fully qualified domain
name in the Server address field.
6. Enter the port number for the RADIUS accounting server in the Port field.
7. Enter the known secret shared between the BSC and the RADIUS accounting server in
the Shared secret field, and then re-enter this shared secret in the Confirm Shared
Secret field.
8. Enter the time (in seconds) by which the RADIUS accounting server must respond to
the BSC request before the request times out in the Timeout field.
9. Optional. Mark the Enable Interim Accounting Records checkbox to enable the use of
Interim RADIUS accounting records. You must then specify how frequently to generate
the interim accounting records by entering an interval value in seconds in the Update
Interval field.
10. Optional. Enter a meaningful description for the external RADIUS accounting server
in the Notes field.
11. Click Save to store the information to the BSC database or Save and create another
to continue to define external RADIUS accounting servers.
Figure 7-1: New RADIUS Accounting Page