RADIUS Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

Viewing RADIUS Statistics

Figure 5-15. RADIUS Server Information From the Show Radius Host Command

Term

Definition

Round Trip Time

The time interval between the most recent Accounting-Response and the Accounting-

 

Request that matched it from this RADIUS accounting server.

PendingRequests

The number of RADIUS Accounting-Request packets sent to this server that have not yet

 

timed out or received a response. This variable is incremented when an accounting-Request

 

is sent and decremented due to receipt of an Accounting-Response, a timeout or a

 

retransmission.

Retransmissions

The number of RADIUS Accounting-Request packets retransmitted to this RADIUS

 

accounting server. Retransmissions include retries where the Identifier and Acct-Delay have

 

been updated, as well as those in which they remain the same.

Timeouts

The number of accounting timeouts to this server. After a timeout the client may retry to the

 

same server, send to a different server, or give up. A retry to the same server is counted as

 

a retransmit as well as a timeout. A send to a different server is counted as an Accounting-

 

Request as well as a timeout.

Malformed Responses

The number of malformed RADIUS Accounting-Response packets received from this server.

 

Malformed packets include packets with an invalid length. Bad authenticators and unknown

 

types are not included as malformed accounting responses.

Bad Authenticators

The number of RADIUS Accounting-Response packets which contained invalid

 

authenticators received from this server.

Unknown Types

The number of RADIUS packets of unknown type which were received from this server on

 

the accounting port.

Packets Dropped

The number of RADIUS packets which were received from this server on the accounting port

 

and dropped for some other reason.

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