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radius [2008/12/18 08:59]
kaiab Added a section for Known issues
radius [2011/04/07 18:24]
faltin [Use cases]
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-====== Radius ======+====== ​The Radius ​Accounting tool ======
  
-Radius is a NAV-tool that collects accounting-data from a [[http://​www.freeradius.org/​|Freeradius-server]] and makes them available to the user through a web-frontend. The goal is to make a more accessible and userfriendly ​interface to the accounting data instead of having to manually look through logfiles. The frontend is divided into three tabs where you can browse different sets of data from the radius-server.+{{:​tools:​radius.png}} The Radius ​accounting tool is a NAV-tool that collects accounting-data from a [[http://​www.freeradius.org/​|Freeradius-server]] and makes them available to the user through a web-frontend. The goal is to make a more accessible and user-friendly ​interface to the accounting data instead of having to manually look through logfiles. The frontend is divided into three tabs where you can browse different sets of data from the radius-server.
  
 +===== Use cases =====
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 +  * If you have an [[http://​eduroam.org|eduroam]] wireless network all you wireless users will log in based on their radius credentials. The NAV radius accounting tool is useful for searching eduroam users.
 +  * If you use IEEE 802.1X in your wired network and thus requires users to log in to get access, the NAV radius accounting tool can track these users as well.
 ===== Accounting Log ===== ===== Accounting Log =====
  
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 You will probably want to change <​code>​$INCLUDE ​ ${confdir}/​sql.conf</​code>​ to <​code>​$INCLUDE ​ ${confdir}/​postgresql.conf</​code>​ You will probably want to change <​code>​$INCLUDE ​ ${confdir}/​sql.conf</​code>​ to <​code>​$INCLUDE ​ ${confdir}/​postgresql.conf</​code>​
  
-Add a line that says <​code>​sql</​code>​ last in the accounting{} section.+Add a line that says <​code>​sql</​code>​ last in the ''​accounting{}'' ​section.
  
-This small script needs to be defined in the main{} section and called from the preacct{} section before the acct_unique script. See examples in the file for where to put it.+This small script needs to be defined in the ''​main{}'' ​section and called from the ''​preacct{}'' ​section before the ''​acct_unique'' ​script. See examples in the file for where to put it.
 <​code>​ <​code>​
 attr_rewrite modify_acctsessionid { attr_rewrite modify_acctsessionid {
radius.txt ยท Last modified: 2011/04/07 18:24 by faltin