Command Manual – Security 
Quidway S8500 Series Routing Switches 
Chapter 2  AAA and RADIUS/HWTACACS Protocol 
Configuration Commands
 
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undo accounting optional 
View 
ISP domain view 
Parameter 
None 
Description 
Use the accounting optional command to enable accounting to be optional. 
Use the undo accounting optional command to disable accounting to be optional. 
By default, accounting is not optional. By executing the accounting  optional 
command, you can enable users to utilize the network resources even when no 
accounting server is available or the switch fails to communicate with the accounting 
server. Users are denied if you do not execute this command under the same 
circumstance. This command is used when you want the server to authenticate without 
charging. 
Example 
# Enable accounting option for domain user named huawei163.net. 
[Quidway] domain huawei163.net 
[Quidway-isp-huawei163.net] accounting optional 
2.1.3  attribute 
Syntax 
attribute  { ip ip-address  | mac mac-address  |  idle-cut  second | access-limit 
max-user-number | vlan vlanid  | location {  nas-ip  ip-address port portnum |  port 
portnum }* 
undo attribute { ip | mac | idle-cut | access-limit | vlan | location }* 
View 
Local user view 
Parameter 
ip: Specifies the IP address of a user. 
mac mac-address: Specifies the MAC address of a user. Where, mac-address takes on 
the hexadecimal format of X-X-X. 
idle-cut second: Allows/Disallows the local users to enable the idle-cut function. (The 
specific data for this function depends on the configuration of the ISP domain where the