Archive for May, 2009

 

 

May 30 2009

Daily Accounting in Freeradius

Published by dave under Cisco, Freeradius

We have seen a few posts on Freeradius user list and other forums asking how to collect accounting periodically. The Radius protocol provides accounting but not in the way that many would like. Here’s a short list of things we would like to modify or improve:

Traffic is not collected at regular intervals
As a result, it [...]

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May 18 2009

Export NFS shares in AIX

Published by dave under Aix

Edit /etc/exports (or create it if it doesn’t exist) and add folders to be shared:

/home/public -access=client1,root=client1

Option access restricts the list of clients, root allows to mount the share by root user
 
Start nfsd services:

startsrc -s nfsd
startsrc -s mountd

 
Check daemons are running:

AIX_NFS_Server # lssrc -s nfsd
Sub-system Group [...]

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May 16 2009

Graph Freeradius Number of Sessions in MRTG

Published by dave under Freeradius, Monitoring

You can easily graph your Freeradius number of active sessions with a simple shell script if you store accounting data in a SQL database.
Use the script below for Mysql:
 

#!/bin/bash

SQL_USERNAME=radius_username
SQL_DATABASE=radius
SQL_PASSWORD=your_password
SQL_SERVER=127.0.0.1
SQL_ACCOUNTING_TABLE=radacct
BACK_DAYS=5

SESSIONS=`mysql -BN -u$SQL_USERNAME -p$SQL_PASSWORD -h $SQL_SERVER $SQL_DATABASE -e \
“SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $SQL_ACCOUNTING_TABLE \
WHERE acctstoptime IS NULL \
AND Acctstarttime > NOW() – [...]

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