Nortel Networks 2300 Viewing Roaming Accounting Records, WSS-20-0013#show accounting statistics

Configuring AAA for Network Users 463

Viewing Roaming Accounting Records

During roaming, accounting is treated as a continuation of an existing session, rather than a new session. The following sample output shows a wireless user roaming from one WSS switch to another WSS switch.

From the accounting records, you can determine the user’s activities by viewing the Acct-Status-Type, which varies from START to UPDATE to STOP, and the Called-Station-Id, which is the MAC address of the AP access point through which the wireless user accessed the network. The Acct-Multi-Session-Id is guaranteed to be globally unique for the client.

By entering show accounting statistics commands on each WSS switch involved in the roaming, you can determine the user’s movements between WSS switches when accounting is configured locally.

The user started on WSS-20-0013:

WSS-20-0013#show accounting statistics

May 21 17:01:32

Acct-Status-Type=START

Acct-Authentic=2

User-Name=Administrator@example.com

Acct-Multi-Session-Id=SESSION-4-1106424789

Event-Timestamp=1053536492

Vlan-Name=default

Calling-Station-Id=00-06-25-09-39-5D

Nas-Port-Id=1/1

Called-Station-Id=00-0B-0E-76-56-A8

The user roamed to WSS-20-0017.

WSS-20-0017#show accounting statistics

May 21 17:05:00

Acct-Status-Type=UPDATE

Acct-Authentic=2

Acct-Multi-Session-Id=SESSION-4-1106424789

User-Name=Administrator@example.com

Acct-Session-Time=209

Acct-Output-Octets=1280

Acct-Input-Octets=1920

Acct-Output-Packets=10

Acct-Input-Packets=15

Event-Timestamp=1053536700

Vlan-Name=default

Calling-Station-Id=00-06-25-09-39-5D

Nas-Port-Id=2/1

Called-Station-Id=00-0B-0E-76-56-A0

The user terminated the session on WSS-20-0017:

WSS-20-0017#show accounting statistics

May 21 17:07:32

Acct-Status-Type=STOP

Acct-Authentic=2

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