Hub/Switch Reference Guide

AAA Commands 191
Nortel WLAN—Security Switch 2300 Series Command Line Reference
Usage For network users with start-stop accounting whose records are sent to a RADIUS server,
WSS Software sends interim updates to the RADIUS server when the user roams.
Examples The following command issues stop-only records to the RADIUS server group sg2 for
network user Nin, who is authenticated by 802.1X:
WSS# set accounting dot1x Nin stop-only sg2
success: change accepted.
See Also
• clear accounting on page 166
• show accounting statistics on page 212
set accounting system
Configures WSS Software to send Accounting-On and Accounting-Off messages to a specified RADIUS
server group.
Syntax set accounting system method1 [method2] [method3] [method4]
Defaults By default WSS Software does not send Accounting-On or Accounting-Off messages.
Access Enabled.
History Introduced in WSS Software 5.0.
Usage Use this command to configure WSS Software to send an Accounting-On message (Acct-
Status-Type = 7) to a RADIUS server when the WSS starts, and an Accounting-Off message (Acct-
Status-Type = 8) to the RADIUS server when the WSS is administratively shut down.
When you enable this command, an Accounting-On message is generated and sent to the specified server or
server group. Subsequent Accounting-On messages are generated each time the WSS starts. When the WSS is
administratively shut down, an Accounting-Off message is generated.
Accounting-Off messages are sent only when the WSS is administratively shut down, not when a critical
failure causes the WSS to reset. The WSS does not wait for a RADIUS server to acknowledge the Accounting-
Off message; the switch makes one attempt to send the Accounting-Off message, then shuts down.
Examples The following command causes Accounting-On and Accounting-Off messages to be
sent to RADIUS server group shorebirds:
WSS# set accounting system shorebirds
success: change accepted.
method1
method2
method3
method4
At least one of up to four methods that WSS Software uses to process
accounting records. Specify one or more methods in priority order. If the
first method does not succeed, WSS Software tries the second method,
and so on.
Note: The local method is not valid for this command.