Syslog and FreeRADIUS

[Jonathan Gazeley]

Hi Ted,

We are using VMWare ESXi on our hypervisors. There's no need to run a 
host OS and it's easy to set up. We haven't encountered any problems to 
speak of. The guest OS that the radius servers run is CentOS.

Cheers,
Jonathan


On 07/06/2009 05:16 PM, Ted Behling wrote:
> Jonathan,
> I'm actually planning to roll out RADIUS on a virtualization platform 
> too, probably Xen.  Could you share what VM platform you're using?  
> Thanks!
> Ted
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> *On Behalf Of *Jonathan Gazeley
> *Sent:* Monday, July 06, 2009 12:15 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: Syslog and FreeRADIUS
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> On 07/06/2009 05:02 PM, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ultimately what I'm after is the ability to send detail logs to syslog
>>> rather than have them written to a file. Perhaps I've been asking the
>>> wrong questions so far, or in the wrong way :)
>>>      
>>
>> whoa. thats completely different to what the current server does,
>> virtual or not. what details do you want to syslog?
>>
>>
>>    
> For a start I want to syslog the stuff that usually goes into 
> radius.log - so the messages when the server starts (which are already 
> being syslogged successfully) and the summary line (Auth: Login OK) 
> printed after an authentication (which are currently not being sent to 
> syslog).
>
> I also want to syslog the stuff that normally gets filed away under 
> /var/log/radius/radacct - so details of radius packets for debugging.
>
> The reason for wanting to send everything to a log host on the network 
> is that the new generation of radius servers we are preparing are all 
> virtualised and only have a few GB of disk - so no room for logs.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
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> Jonathan Gazeley
> Systems Support Specialist
> ResNet | Wireless&  VPN Team
> Information Services
> University of Bristol
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Jonathan Gazeley
Systems Support Specialist
ResNet | Wireless&  VPN Team
Information Services
University of Bristol
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