RADIUS Acct-On and Acct-Off Messages

Subscriber management supports RADIUS Acct-On and Acct-Off messages to indicate the current state of RADIUS accounting support.

RADIUS Acct-On messages indicate that accounting is being supported. Subscriber management issues Acct-On messages in the following situations:

• Accounting is enabled through configuration (for example, an accounting server is configured).
• A new access profile is configured and committed for a logical system/routing instance context. However, no Acct-On message is sent if the accounting server exists prior to the access profile and if it is simply modified.
• The router performs a cold reboot.
• The router performs a warm reboot and there are no subscribers currently logged in.
• The Authd process restarts and there are no active subscribers.

RADIUS Acct-Off messages indicate that accounting in not supported. Subscriber management issues Acct-Off messages in the following situations:

• The Authd process is terminated and there are no active subscribers.
• The router is shut down and accounting servers are currently configured (this action also logs out all current subscribers).
• The router is rebooted and redundancy is disabled.

Related Topics

• AAA Service Framework Overview
• Configuring How Accounting Statistics Are Collected for Subscriber Access