Well, it would be nice to know when our thousands of users can't log in when radius dies. =) The need to monitor radius is there because all other services can be up except for the radius. If anyone knows of another way to monitor radius I'd love to know how and implement it, but for the time being this is the best option I've got.
James Brooks Quantum Connections http://www.qtm.net Voice 888-926-4242 Fax 616-926-6363 -----Original Message----- From: Magnus Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] unix radius monitoring Are you SURE you want to do this? RFC 2865, section 2.6 states: "2.6. Keep-Alives Considered Harmful Some implementers have adopted the practice of sending test RADIUS requests to see if a server is alive. This practice is strongly discouraged, since it adds to load and harms scalability without providing any additional useful information. Since a RADIUS request is contained in a single datagram, in the time it would take you to send a ping you could just send the RADIUS request, and getting a reply tells you that the RADIUS server is up. If you do not have a RADIUS request to send, it does not matter if the server is up or not, because you are not using it. If you want to monitor your RADIUS server, use SNMP. That's what SNMP is for." regards, /Magnus Andersson, Infogate AB > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Brooks > Sent: den 14 januari 2002 16:31 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] unix radius monitoring > > > hey all > > I've been trying since WUG6 to get WUG to monitor the radius on our Unix > servers. Technical support was very limited on the subject. I was > wondering if anyone has gotten this to work yet? & if so, any > advice? I'm > currently running WUG7. > > I'm hoping I don't have to run Big Brother/Sister on another > server just to > monitor radius when WUG says that you can. > > James Brooks > Quantum Connections > http://www.qtm.net > Voice 888-926-4242 > Fax 616-926-6363 > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
