System information

General System Configuration
Configuring RADIUS Accounting
RADIUS Accounting Attribute Description
Acct-Terminate-Cause Specifies how the session was terminated
User-Name Contains the user’s identity
Class Sent by the server to the client in an Access-Accept
message
NAS Identifier Hard coded identifier of the RADIUS Accounting client
Acct-Interim-Interval Indicates the number of seconds between each interim
update in seconds for the given session
Web: Setting RADIUS Accounting Server Parameters
The Accounting Servers window on the Administration tab provides the primary
and secondary RADIUS Accounting server setup parameters.
The web interface enables you to modify these parameters to use RADIUS
Accounting on the access point:
■ Enabled/Disabled: Enables or disables RADIUS Accounting on the
access point. (Default: Disabled)
■ Primary Server Setup: Configure the following settings to send user-
session information from the access point to a RADIUS Accounting server.
• IP Address: Specifies the IP address of the RADIUS Accounting
server.
• Port: The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port number used by the
RADIUS Accounting server for accounting messages. Setting the port
number to zero disables RADIUS Accounting. (Range: 0 or 1024-
65535; Default: 1813)
• Secret Key: A shared text string used to encrypt messages between
the access point and the RADIUS Accounting server. Be sure that the
same text string is specified on the RADIUS Accounting server. Do
not use blank spaces in the string. (Maximum length: 20 characters)
• Timeout: Number of seconds the access point waits for a reply from
the RADIUS Accounting server before resending a request. The
default is 5 seconds. (Range: 1-60 seconds)
• Retransmit Attempts: The number of times the access point tries
to resend a request to the RADIUS server before authentication fails.
(Range: 1 - 30; Default: 3)
• Interim Update Interval: Sets the interval between transmitting
accounting updates to the RADIUS Accounting server.
(Range: 60-86400 seconds; Default: 3600 seconds)
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