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Compilation Error? The Oracle client being installed (11g R2 in my setup), Freeradius doesn’t seem to find Oracle headers. I get the following error message: Error compiling Oracle/Freeradius configure: WARNING: oracle headers not found. Use –with-oracle-home-dir=<path>. configure: WARNING: silently not building rlm_sql_oracle. configure: WARNING: FAILURE: rlm_sql_oracle requires: oci.h.   Specifying the path to –with-oracle-home-dir doesn’t [...]

Tags: compile, Freeradius, Oracle

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 [...]

Tags: accounting, billing software, Cisco, daily, Database, Freeradius, Mysql, quota, radius, report, SQL, traffic

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 [...]

Tags: active, Freeradius, graph, monitor, mrtg, number, session