Add accounting server

Accounting servers can be used as primary or secondary accounting servers for Federadius front ends. The primary accounting server has all RADIUS accounting packets proxied to it. Responses, for example, acknowledgements, are proxied back to the accounting server. When a secondary account server is configured for a front end, Federadius will send a copy of all accounting packets received from the RADIUS client to that server. The Federadius front end does not listen for acknowledgements from the secondary server.

This function can be used to advise network devices necessary information to apply policy, data retention purposes, to facilitate legal intercept and inform other services that map users to IP addresses.

This task explains how to add a Federadius accounting server.

  1. Select Federadius under RADIUS on the Configuration and Tools page.
    The Federadius Configuration page and the Federadius Front Ends tab is displayed.
  2. Click the Accounting servers tab.
    The Accounting servers tab is displayed.
  3. Click New.
    A blank Federadius Front End page is displayed.
  4. Complete the accounting server configuration fields. The following fields require additional explanation:
    • Name—Specifies a descriptive name of the accounting server.
    • Hostname—Specifies an ASCII string or IP address that identifies the accounting server.
    • Accounting port—Specifies the port to which Federadius sends accounting packets.
  5. Click Save.
    The Accounting servers tab is displayed. The server is displayed in the summary list.
  6. Click Push updated configuration to apply Federadius accounting server configuration.