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Configuring the Timers Regarding TACACS Servers 
Table 2-31 Configure the timers regarding TACACS servers 
Operation  Command  Remarks 
Enter system view 
system-view 
— 
Create a HWTACACS scheme 
and enter its view 
hwtacacs scheme 
hwtacacs-scheme-name 
Required 
By default, no HWTACACS 
scheme exists. 
Set the response timeout time 
of TACACS servers 
timer response-timeout 
seconds 
Optional 
By default, the response 
timeout time is five seconds. 
Set the time that the switch 
must wait before it can restore 
the status of the primary server 
to active 
timer quiet minutes 
Optional 
By default, the switch must wait 
five minutes before it can 
restore the status of the primary 
server to active. 
Set the real-time accounting 
interval 
timer realtime-accounting 
minutes 
Optional 
By default, the real-time 
accounting interval is 12 
minutes. 
 
 
z  To control the interval at which users are charge in real time, you can set the real-time accounting 
interval. After the setting, the switch periodically sends online users' accounting information to the 
TACACS server at the set interval.  
z  The real-time accounting interval must be a multiple of 3. 
z  The setting of real-time accounting interval somewhat depends on the performance of the 
TACACS client and server devices: A shorter interval requires higher device performance. 
 
Displaying and Maintaining AAA 
After the above configurations, you can execute the display commands in any view to view the 
configuration result and operation status of AAA, RADIUS and HWTACACS and verify your 
configuration. 
You can use the reset command in user view to clear the corresponding statistics. 
Table 2-32 Display AAA information 
Operation  Command  Remarks 
Display configuration 
information about one specific 
or all ISP domains 
display domain [ isp-name ] 
You can 
execute the 
display