[RADIATOR] Multiple accounting output formats

[Tuure Vartiainen]

Hello Vangelis,

> On 7 Nov 2016, at 14.19, Vangelis Kyriakakis <vkyriak at forthnet.gr> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks for this addition to Radiator.

You’re wellcome!

>     Can the new AcctLog mechanism be used together with the
> AcctLogFileName/AcctLogFileFormat configuration commands, or the use of
> the former prevents the use of the latter?
> 

Yes, both can be used at the same time, accounting is first written to AcctLogFileName 
and after AuthBy(s) AcctLog(s) are run.

> 
> On 7/11/2016 10:55 πμ, Tuure Vartiainen wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:47, Tuure Vartiainen <vartiait at open.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 13 Jun 2016, at 18:13, <l.m.c.haverkotte at utwente.nl> <l.m.c.haverkotte at utwente.nl> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> What I would like to achieve is the following: from a single handler generate accounting logs to multiple files in multiple formats (e.g. 2 files with the normal output, 1 with JSON output). Outputting to multiple files is easy, but of course adding the formatting hook for JSON output causes both files to be in that format.
>>>> Is there any way to achieve this in radiator? (It’s not a problem for Authentication logs since you can just set a different log filename per e.g. AuthBy, but this does not seem to be available for accounting logs).
>>>> 
>>> unfortunately currently that’s not possible, all AcctLogFileNames use the same 
>>> configured format.
>>> 
>>> AuthLog could be companied with AcctLog which would allow to configure the 
>>> described feature.
>>> 
>> Following AcctLogs are now in Radiator v. 4.17 patches:
>> 
>> AcctLog FILE
>> AcctLog SYSLOG
>> AcctLog SQL
>> AcctLog EVENTLOG
>> 
>> AcctLogs work like AuthLogs and are run for Accounting-Requests which are handled by a handler, e.g.:
>> 
>> <AcctLog FILE>
>>    Identifier AcctLog-FILE
>> 
>>    Filename %L/acct.log
>> 
>>    # LogFormat defines a format AcctLog
>>    #LogFormat %l:%n:%{Acct-Session-Id}:%{Framed-IP-Address}:%{Calling-Station-Id}
>> </AcctLog>
>> 
>> <Handler ...>
>>    ...
>> 
>> 
>>    AuthLog ...
>>    AcctLog AcctLog-FILE
>>    ...
>> </Handler>
>> 
> 


BR
-- 
Tuure Vartiainen <vartiait at open.com.au>

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