(RADIATOR) Lost Stop Record Scripts

[Leon Oosterwijk]

Paul, 

I have written such a script. I'd be happy to share it's concept with you if
you wish. It's written in PERL and uses SNMP to contact the NAS units. 

Sincerely, 

Leon Oosterwijk
ISDN-NET Inc. 
(615) 221-4200
http://www.isdn.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:hugh at open.com.au] 
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:54 PM
> To: Paul; radiator at open.com.au
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Lost Stop Record Scripts
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Paul -
> 
> The "lost stop record" problem is in many ways directly due 
> to the design of 
> the radius protocol, as it is based on UDP and records can 
> and do go missing. 
> There are also various NAS software bugs that can cause 
> accounting packets to 
> go missing as well.
> 
> Most operators tend to do their accounting based on stop 
> records alone and 
> treat the lost records as operating overhead. 
> 
> Note that you could do something with a cron job that scans 
> the session 
> database and generates a stop record for any "stale" record 
> and then deletes 
> it. This is not a standard Radiator feature however.
> 
> regards
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:24, Paul wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Does anyone have any scripts that can scan through a 
> logfile and/or an 
> > SQL table and locate lost stop records, or identify which sessions 
> > have been lost based on Alive packets. We are having problems with 
> > Lost stop records and need to locate them so we can pass 
> them onto our 
> > developers. Any advice or scripts would be apprciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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