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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:54 PM > To: Paul; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > > > === > > Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ > > Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe > > radiator' in the body of the message. > > -- > Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS > server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, > NT, MacOS X. > - > Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, > extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and > database independence. === Archive at > http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ > Announcements on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with > 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. > === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.