Hello Jaime -
Just use an AccountingStopsOnly in your AuthBy SQL clause.
AccountingStopsOnly
..
Have a look at section 6.28.12 in the Radiator 2.18.4 reference manual.
regards
Hugh
On Thursday 20 September 2001 22:22, Jaime Elizaga Jr. wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
>
> We are currently running Radiator 2.18.4 with MySQL.
>
> I do notice that with ACCOUNTING, there are two records generated for every
> user session, one is when the user connects and the other is when it the
> user disconnects. In just a small amount of time, our accounting database
> has grown to very big, about 200,000 records within two months of
> operation. Within half a year, we can generate as much as 1,000,000
> records. I also notice that both the records pertaining to a user session
> is almost identical except for the timestamp, status type and session time.
> This means that we are having redundant records.
>
> Is there a way to have the Accounting to insert a record upon a user's
> connection and just update that same record upon the user's disconnection?
> There will be some modified fields like the Timestamp will be changed to
> Time_Start and add another column like Time_Stop.
>
> My config file looks something like this:
>
> Foreground
> LogStdout
> LogDir /var/log/radius
> LogFile /var/log/radius/%m/%d%Y-trace
> FingerProg /usr/bin/finger
> PidFile /var/run/radius.pid
> DictionaryFile /usr/local/etc/dictionary
> Trace 4
>
>
> Secret yyyxxx
> DupInterval 3
>
>
>
> AcctLogFileName /var/log/radius/default/details
> PasswordLogFileName /var/log/radius/Test/%m%d%Y-passlog
>
> # Adjust DBSource, DBUsername, DBAuth to suit your DB
> DBSource dbi:mysql:XXXDb
> DBUsername xx
> DBAuth x
>
> AuthSelect select PASSWORD, TIMELEFT from SUBSCRIBERS where
> USERNAME='%n' AuthColumnDef 0,User-Password,check
> AuthColumnDef 1,Session-Timeout,reply
> DefaultReplyService-Type=Framed-User, Framed-Protocol=PPP,
> Framed-Routing=None AccountingTable ACCOUNTING
> AcctColumnDef USERNAME,User-Name
> AcctColumnDef TIMESTAMP,Timestamp,integer
> AcctColumnDef STATUS_TYPE,Acct-Status-Type
> AcctColumnDef SESSION_ID,Acct-Session-Id
> AcctColumnDef SESSION_TIME,Acct-Session-Time,integer
> AcctColumnDef TERMINATE_CAUSE,Ascend-Disconnect-Cause,integer
> AcctColumnDef NAS_IDENTIFIER,NAS-IP-Address
> AcctColumnDef NAS_PORT,NAS-Port,integer
> AcctColumnDef IP_ADDRESS,Framed-IP-Address
> AcctColumnDef CALLER_ID,Calling-Station-Id
> AcctColumnDef CALLED_STATION,Called-Station-Id
> AcctSQLStatement update SUBSCRIBERS set
> TIMELEFT=TIMELEFT-0%{Acct-Session-Time} \ where USERNAME='%n'
>
>
>
> I am thinking if it is possible to have two accounting sequences wherein
> one would take care of accounting start and the other would take care of
> the accounting stops.
>
> AccountingTable ACCOUNTING
> AccountingStartsOnly
> AcctColumnDef USERNAME,User-Name
> AcctColumnDef TIMESTART,Timestamp,integer
> AcctColumnDef STATUS_TYPE,Acct-Status-Type
> AcctColumnDef SESSION_ID,Acct-Session-Id
> AcctColumnDef SESSION_TIME,Acct-Session-Time,integer
> AcctColumnDef TERMINATE_CAUSE,Ascend-Disconnect-Cause,integer
> AcctColumnDef NAS_IDENTIFIER,NAS-IP-Address
> AcctColumnDef NAS_PORT,NAS-Port,integer
> AcctColumnDef IP_ADDRESS,Framed-IP-Address
> AcctColumnDef CALLER_ID,Calling-Station-Id
> AcctColumnDef CALLED_STATION,Called-Station-Id
> AccountingStopsOnly
> AcctColumnDef USERNAME,User-Name
> AcctColumnDef TIMESTOP,Timestamp,integer
> AcctColumnDef STATUS_TYPE,Acct-Status-Type
> AcctColumnDef SESSION_ID,Acct-Session-Id
> AcctColumnDef SESSION_TIME,Acct-Session-Time,integer
> AcctColumnDef TERMINATE_CAUSE,Ascend-Disconnect-Cause,integer
> AcctColumnDef NAS_IDENTIFIER,NAS-IP-Address
> AcctColumnDef NAS_PORT,NAS-Port,integer
> AcctColumnDef IP_ADDRESS,Framed-IP-Address
> AcctColumnDef CALLER_ID,Calling-Station-Id
> AcctColumnDef CALLED_STATION,Called-Station-Id
> AcctSQLStatement update SUBSCRIBERS set
> TIMELEFT=TIMELEFT-0%{Acct-Session-Time} \ where USERNAME='%n'
>
>
> Is there any other means that is more efficient in dealing about with this
> type of scenario? Please enlighten me.
>
>
>
> Thank you very much,
>
>
> Jaime Elizaga Jr.
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