Flat File Accounting

The SAE software includes a default plug-in for writing accounting information to local files directly. The format of the local file is line oriented, where each accounting record is written to a single line and the values of each accounting record are separated by commas.

The attributes that are included in the file and their order can be configured. An exception is the first attribute, Accounting_status, which determines the type of the accounting record and is always the first attribute.

The first line of each accounting file contains the comma-separated list of attribute names.

Table A-3 lists the available attributes.

Table A-3 RADIUS accounting flat file attributes 

RADIUS Accounting Attribute	Notes
Accounting_status	Values are start, stop, or interim
User_IP_Address	IP address of client
Accounting_ID	Accounting ID, configured in subscriber entry in the directory
Login_Name	User ID provided at login time
Auth_User_ID	User ID used for service authentication
Terminate_Cause	User-Request, Lost-Service (PPP hangup), Idle-Timeout, Session-Timeout, Admin-Reset
Radius_Class	Derived from service definition
If_Radius_Class	For PPP subscriber sessions, the RADIUS class attribute assigned to the PPP interface
Service_Name	Name of SAE service
Service_Scope	Name of service scope (virtual router in SDX software Release 3.1)
Event_Time	Timestamp
Session_ID	Unique identifier for user and service sessions
If-Session_ID	For PPP subscriber sessions, the session ID assigned by the E-series router
Port_ID	Identification of subscriber interface
Interface_Alias	Alternate name of interface (CLI interface description)
Interface_Descr	Name of IP interface, format: IP <slot>/<port>[.<subinterface]
Nasid	Identification of E-series router for accounting
NAS_IP	IP address of E-series router
SAE_HOST	Hostname of SAE server
In_Octets	Number of octets received from user
Out_Octets	Number of octets sent to user
In_Packets	Number of IP packets received from user
Out_Packets	Number of IP packets sent to user
Session_Time	Length of session in seconds