billing problem in freeradius

[anand kumar]

HI,
   
  i want to configure the billing server(mysql database) with freeradius.

  Hi Anand,

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Are you trying to get freeradius to 
deny authorization when a user meets certain billing-related criteria, 
eg: haven't paid their bill for x months, have used up all their 
pre-paid usage, etc? Or, are you trying to log accounting data into a 
database in some way that the rlm_sql accounting code doesn't already 
allow you to do?

The standard approach is to simply use sql accounting, which will log 
accounting data to an SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle etc) database, then 
use billing software to generate bills based on the data in your 
accounting table, or a capture of that data at a particular instance, or 
something similar. If you have usage meters or other such software, 
you'd have those querying the accounting table.

Did that help, or am I way off?

Cheers,


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