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CHAPTER51 Reporting Information to External Party
Mediant 4000 SBC | User's Manual
■ Vendor-specific RADIUS attributes: RADIUS attributes that are specific to the device
(company) are referred to as Vendor-specific attributes (VSA). The CDR of VSAs are sent with
a general RADIUS ID of 26 to indicate that they are vendor-specific (non-standard). In addition,
the company's registered vendor ID (as registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority or IANA) is also included in the packet. The device's default vendor ID is 5003, which
can be changed (see Configuring the RADIUS Vendor ID). The VSA ID is also included in the
packet.
The following figure shows a vendor-specific RADIUS attribute collected by Wireshark. The
bottom pane shows the RADIUS attribute information as sent in the packet; the upper pane is
Wireshark's interpretation of the RADIUS information in a more readable format. The example
shows the attribute in string-of-characters format.
You can customize the prefix title of the RADIUS attribute name and the ID. For more
information, see Customizing CDRs for SBC Calls .
To configure the address of the RADIUS Accounting server, see Configuring RADIUS Servers. For
all RADIUS-related configuration, see RADIUS-based Services.
➢ To configure RADIUS accounting:
1. Open the Call Detail Record Settings page (Troubleshoot menu > Troubleshoot tab > Call
Detail Record folder > Call Detail Record Settings).
2. Configure the following parameters:
● From the 'Enable RADIUS Access Control' drop-down list (EnableRADIUS), select
Enable.
● From the 'RADIUS Accounting Type' drop-down list (RADIUSAccountingType), select
the stage of the call that RADIUS accounting messages are sent to the RADIUS
accounting server.
● From the 'AAA Indications' drop-down list (AAAIndications), select whether you want
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) indications.
For a detailed description of the parameters, see RADIUS Parameters.
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