Nortel Networks NN46110-602 manual Radius accounting, Data collection task

Chapter 2 Status and logging 39

The data collection system stores records in text-based files stored in the system/ dclog subdirectory. The system stores the most recent 60 days of data. The system stores daily files, summary files, and summary history files. Ongoing administration tasks include monitoring the configuration files, backing up and restoring the VPN Router or the LDAP database, and upgrading images and clients.

Note: The VPN Router does not sort accounting records and displays them in a random order.

RADIUS accounting

The VPN Router stores copies of RADIUS accounting records and normally sends these records to a standard RADIUS Accounting server. To configure a RADIUS accounting server, select Servers > RADIUS Acct.

To view the information in the standard RADIUS accounting records, select Status > Accounting. The VPN Router creates a file for each day and keeps the most recent 60 days of data, storing them in the SYSTEM/ACCTLOG directory.

Note: The Status > Accounting window can provide misleading branch office session information because it displays rekeyed branch office tunnels as separate entries. The VPN Router does not send RADIUS accounting records to external servers for branch office connections.

Data collection task

The VPN Router runs the data collection task runs and gathers data about the system’s status. The task captures data every minute and writes it to a data file. The VPN Router uses the information this task captures to create the graphs and reports available from the Status > Reports window and stores this information in text-based files in the system/dclog directory. The VPN Router creates the following types of files in the this directory:

•Daily files that contain interval records gathered every 60 seconds. These values are interval values and there is a file for each day (for example 20040622.DC).

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