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HAPTER
5
| Monitoring the Switch
Displaying Information on Authentication Servers
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Bad Authenticators - The number of RADIUS Access-Response
packets containing invalid authenticators or Message Authenticator
attributes received from this server.
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Unknown Types - The number of RADIUS packets of unknown
type that were received from this server on the authentication port.
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Packets Dropped - The number of RADIUS packets that were
received from this server on the authentication port and dropped for
some other reason.
â—† Transmit Packets
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Access Requests - The number of RADIUS Access-Request
packets sent to this server. This does not include retransmissions.
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Access Retransmissions - The number of RADIUS Access-
Request packets retransmitted to this RADIUS authentication
server.
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Pending Requests - The number of RADIUS Access-Request
packets destined for the server that have not yet timed out or
received a response. This variable is incremented when an Access-
Request is sent and decremented due to receipt of an Access-
Accept, Access-Reject, Access-Challenge, timeout, or
retransmission.
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Timeouts - The number of authentication timeouts to the server.
After a timeout, the client may retry to the same server, send to a
different server, or give up. A retry to the same server is counted as
a retransmit as well as a timeout. A send to a different server is
counted as a Request as well as a timeout.
â—† Other Info
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State - The current state of the server. This field takes one of the
following values:
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Disabled - The server is disabled.
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Not Ready - The server is enabled, but IP communication is not
yet up and running.
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Ready - The server is enabled, IP communication is up and
running, and the RADIUS module is ready to accept access
attempts.
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Dead (X seconds left) - Access attempts were made to this
server, but it did not reply within the configured timeout. The
server has been temporarily disabled, but will be re-enabled
when the dead-time expires. The number of seconds left before
this occurs is displayed in parentheses.