Concept Guide

Setting Global Communication Parameters for all RADIUS Server Hosts
You can congure global communication parameters (auth-port, key, retransmit, and timeout parameters) and specic host
communication parameters on the same system.
However, if you congure both global and specic host parameters, the specic host parameters override the global parameters for that
RADIUS server host.
To set global communication parameters for all RADIUS server hosts, use the following commands.
Set a time interval after which a RADIUS host server is declared dead.
CONFIGURATION mode
radius-server deadtime seconds
seconds: the range is from 0 to 2147483647. The default is 0 seconds.
Congure a key for all RADIUS communications between the system and RADIUS server hosts.
CONFIGURATION mode
radius-server key [encryption-type] key
encryption-type: enter 7 to encrypt the password. Enter 0 to keep the password as plain text.
key: enter a string. The key can be up to 42 characters long. You cannot use spaces in the key.
Congure the number of times Dell EMC Networking OS retransmits RADIUS requests.
CONFIGURATION mode
radius-server retransmit retries
retries: the range is from 0 to 100. Default is 3 retries.
Congure the time interval the system waits for a RADIUS server host response.
CONFIGURATION mode
radius-server timeout seconds
seconds: the range is from 0 to 1000. Default is 5 seconds.
To view the conguration of RADIUS communication parameters, use the show running-config command in EXEC Privilege mode.
Monitoring RADIUS
To view information on RADIUS transactions, use the following command.
View RADIUS transactions to troubleshoot problems.
EXEC Privilege mode
debug radius
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