Help with "extending logging" ...

[al pat]

Hi Folks,
Trying to look at the problem in another way.

I am inclined to think that I may have to write a module to "parse" the
octet string and populate the attributes into the AVP list. Assuming that
this is feasible, I would like to parse before the logging happens (via the
"detail" module).

To this end, wondering how to order the execution of modules - is this
dictated via the order of entries in the
accounting {} part of the radiusd.conf file?

Any insight into the questions /issues below will also be very helpful.

Thanks
-a

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:18 AM, al pat <alps.oss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to parse accounting logs of cablelabs format. Some of the
> attributes are octet strings which in itself contain
> detailed information that is printed as a octet string by freeradius.
>
> e.g.:
>
>         CableLabs-Event-Message = 0x484153482830783833326632306329
>
>         CableLabs-Related-Call-Billing-Crl-ID +=
> 0x494b8dc32020202020202032302b3
>
> 0303030303000000040
>
>         CableLabs-Related-Call-Billing-Crl-ID +=
> 0x494b8dc32020202020202032302b3
>
> 030303030300000003f
>
>         Acct-Session-Id = "IK\215\303       20+000000\000\000\000?"
>
>    ..... other avps' ...
>
> With help of members on this list, I have been able to write a perl module
> to parse these octet strings, but am not able
> to log them in proper place.
>
> I need to log all the standard attributes (typically logged in
> .../Client-IP-Addr/detail-<date> file) as well as these extra
> parsed attributes in one place. These are all in the accounting messages -
> need to achieve a consolidated log for
> accounting messages - does not matter in which file it is.
>
> How to achieve that?
>
> Do I need to make a code change - if so where?
> Do I need to make a change to the config files - if so which?
> Do I need to use a specific log mechanism in the perl module - if so what?
>
> Any other input/guidance to help achieve that?
>
> Thank You
> -a
>
>
>
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