RSA Security 6.1 manual Accounting Statistic Meaning

Table 14 describes the accounting statistics and suggested actions in italics (if appropriate).

Table 14. Accounting Statistics

Accounting Statistic	Meaning
Transactions
Starts	The current, average, and peak number of transactions in
	which a connection was started following a successful
	authentication since the last time accounting statistics were
	reset.
Stops
	The current, average, and peak number of transactions in
	which a connection was terminated since the last time
	authentication statistics were reset.
Ons
	The number of Accounting-On messages received,
	indicating that a RADIUS client has started since the last
	time authentication statistics were reset.
Offs
	The number of Accounting-Off messages received,
	indicating that a RADIUS client has shut down gracefully
	since the last time authentication statistics were reset.
Total
	The sum of the start, stop, on and off totals since the last
	time authentication statistics were reset.
Failure Details
Dropped Packet	The number of RADIUS accounting packets dropped by
	RSA RADIUS Server because the server was flooded with
	more packets than it could handle.
Invalid Request
	The number of invalid RADIUS requests received by the
	RSA RADIUS Server.
	A device is sending incorrectly formed packets to
	RSA RADIUS Server; either there is a configuration error,
	or the device does not conform to the RADIUS standard.
Failed Accounting
	The number of RADIUS accounting requests that
	RSA RADIUS Server was unable to process.
Insufficient Resources
	The number of rejects due to a server resource problem.
Retries Received
Transactions Retried	The number of requests for which one or more duplicates
	was received.
Total Retry Packets
	The number of duplicate packets received.
Interim Requests	The number of interim accounting packets received.

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