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RADIUS Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
Accounting Services
Accounting Controls. These options are enabled separately, and define
how the switch will send accounting data to a RADIUS server:
■ Start-Stop: Applies to the exec, network, and system accounting
service types:
• Send a “start record accounting” notice at the beginning of the
accounting session and a “stop record notice” at the end of the
session. Both notices include the latest data the switch has collected
for the requested accounting type.
• Do not wait for an acknowledgement.
■ Stop-Only: Applies to the network, exec, system, and command service
types, as described below:
• Send a stop record accounting notice at the end of the accounting
session. The notice includes the latest data the switch has collected
for the requested accounting type (network, exec, or system service
types). For the commands service type, sends the “Stop” accounting
notice after execution of each CLI command.
• Do not wait for an acknowledgment.
■ Interim-Update: Applies only to the command service type, and is
intended for use when the optional common session ID is configured.
Enabling interim-update in this case results in the command
accounting records appearing as enclosed sub-parts of the exec
service type record for a given management session. (Using interim-
update when the unique session ID is configured has no effect because
in this case, the different service types appear as separate accounting
processes with separate Acct-Session-ID values.
Note Configuring interim-update for Command accounting results in all commands
being reported as “update” records, regardless of whether common or unique
is configured for the accounting session ID (page 6-56).