Hello Elias, what we did on our end is monitor Radiator's performance
using MRTG graphs. we are only monitoring total requests against
accepts, rejects, dropped, bad authenticators, and accounting.
one nice thing about Radiator is that you can define SNMP comunity
trings and even a separate SNMP port in case you are using the standard
SNMP port for your server (hardware, disks, memory, traffic) performance
monitoring.
i can share my MRTG config if you are interested.
Hugh Irvine wrote:
>
> Hello Elias -
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Elias wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to monitor the performance of Radiator. Is there any way to
> check the number of users authenticated per day and the number of
> authentication failures? Also, how can I record the total response time for
> each authentication request?
>
> The easiest way to check the number of authentications per day is simply to
> count the number of accounting records (starts or stops) in your database on a
> daily basis. Also if you set logging to the database, you can do the same thing
> with failure messages (or you can just parse the log file).
>
> As to measuring total response time for each authentication, that is a bit
> harder, as Radiator will only see the access request after the modem handshake
> and the initial PPP sequence. Some NAS equipment will report the amount of time
> taken to set up a call in the accounting records, but most do not. Normally
> Radiator does not log successful authentications unless it is running with
> Trace 4, but I would not recommend this in a production environment. There are
> some statistics maintained by Radiator that you can query via a radius status
> server request or via SNMP. The only other option might be to check your
> database statistics for response times to certain queries.
>
> hth
>
> Hugh
>
> ps - how is everyone at Telecom Malaysia? Please say hello on my behalf.
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