Specifications

Accounting
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Managing Accounting
Introduction
You can manage the accounting feature fully by using SNMP or the user interface.
You can access the accounting log itself using both mechanisms. This section
describes the user interface commands you can use to manage the accounting
feature.
Reference
Refer to SNMP Survival Guide (located on the CNAS distribution media) for
instructions on managing the accounting component with SNMP.
Defining the Accounting Log Size
Use the DEFINE ACCOUNTING LOGSIZE command to control the amount of
memory allocated at initialization to create the log file. Valid values for the
LOGSIZE variable are 0, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and 512 (units are kilobytes). If
the accounting component cannot allocate the specified amount of memory at the
time of initialization, the value displayed for LOGSIZE in the SHOW
ACCOUNTING CHARACTERISTICS display will be set to zero.
If this occurs, define a smaller value for LOGSIZE. This characteristic can only be
modified with a DEFINE command. Note that a newly defined value will not take
effect until the next time the server is reinitialized.
Example: Defining the Accounting Log Size
The following shows how to set the size of allocated memory to 512 KB:
Local> DEFINE ACCOUNTING LOGSIZE 512
An access server configured with 2 megabytes of memory may not have sufficient
resources to allow for the creation of an accounting log.
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