Concept Guide

The AAA settings dialog box appears.
3. Make sure that the Accounting tab is selected and click Edit.
The Edit Accounting dialog box appears.
4. In the Exec section, you can configure whether accounting information is sent when a user logs on
to the I/O Aggregator device in EXEC mode. Make one of the following selections:
• Start-Stop — Sends a “start accounting” notice at the beginning of the requested event and a
“stop accounting” notice at the end of the event.
• Stop-Only — Instructs the TACACS+ server to send a “stop record accounting” notice at the end
of the requested user process.
• Wait-Start — Ensures that the TACACS + server acknowledges the start notice before granting
the user’s process request.
• None (default)
The selected method appears in this section.
5. In the Command Accounting section, you can configure whether accounting information is sent
when a user logs in at the specified method and method level. Makes one of the following selections:
• Start-Stop — Sends a “start accounting” notice at the beginning of the requested event and a
“stop accounting” notice at the end of the event.
• Stop-Only — Instructs the TACACS+ server to send a “stop record accounting” notice at the end
of the requested user process.
• Wait-Start — Ensures that the TACACS + server acknowledges the start notice before granting
the user’s process request.
• None (default)
The selected method and level appear in this section. The default method level is 15.
6. In the System Accounting section, you can configure whether to send accounting information of any
other AAA configuration. Make one of the following selections:
• Start-Stop — Sends a “start accounting” notice at the beginning of the requested event and a
“stop accounting” notice at the end of the event.
• Stop-Only — Instructs the TACACS+ server to send a “stop record accounting” notice at the end
of the requested user process.
• Wait-Start — Ensures that the TACACS + server acknowledges the start notice before granting
the user’s process request.
• None (default)
The selected method appears in this section.
7. Dell Networking OS issues accounting records for all users on the system, including users whose
user name string, due to protocol translation, is NULL. To prevent the accounting records from being
generated for sessions that do not have user names associated to them, in the Suppressing Null User
Name section, select
Enabled. To continue to have the device generate these records, select
Disabled.
8. Click Apply.
Your selections appear on the Accounting tab.
9. To close the AAA settings dialog box, click Close.
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