(RADIATOR) Re: Link down Radiator at far end of the link showing user logged

[cistron]

Thanks Irvine, but if the NAS cannot be restarted due to some problems, then the
Radiator will continously show that the users are logged on and they will be
billed for those hours they have not used. Can you kindly suggest some solution.

Thanks and Regards.

Hugh Irvine wrote:

> Hello -
>
> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 21:42, cistron wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > My Radiator Server and NAS client are at different location connected by
> > lease line. In case the link goes down all those users who are connected
> > from that link are shown as connected although they are not connected any
> > more. Can Radiator do some polling to check whether the client is dead or
> > alive.
> >
>
> I am not sure what you are asking here. Normally, Radiator acts only as a
> server - it never checks whether a NAS is there or not. Just because the link
> between the Radiator host and the NAS goes down, it does not mean that users
> are disconnected from the NAS.
>
> If the NAS itself does go down, Radiator will receive a startup message from
> it when it restarts, and will clear the session database for the NAS
> automatically.
>
> If you want to do network health checks, you should probably look at some
> sort of network monitoring software (via SNMP or whatever).
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
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