RES: New FreeRADIUS Deployment

[Mauricio Harley]

Ok, friends,

 

Thank you very much for start discussing.  Let's get that more objective.

 

RADIUS Server:  any CPU, 4 GB RAM, any disk space / any Linux

Database Server:  any CPU, RAM (???), disk space (???), MySQL / any Linux

Additional:  SAN to enable database cluster (any tip?)

 

Am I right?  What would be answers to the question marks?

 

Kind regards,

 

Maurício Harley 
Suporte Técnico 
Cisco IP Phone:  +55 (85) 3133-7910
Auriga Tecnologia & Negócios 
  
Cisco SILVER Certified Partner 
IBM Business Partner

 

De: freeradius-users-bounces+mauricio.brito=auriga.com.br at lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+mauricio.brito=auriga.com.br at lists.freeradius.org] Em nome de Julson, Jim
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 17:53
Para: FreeRadius users mailing list
Assunto: RE: New FreeRADIUS Deployment

 

My message was truncated somehow...

 

For point 1, I was going to just say, the more spindles for the hard drives the better, and a normal amount of RAM, like 4GB or so.  You will have a decent amount of IOPS, especially if you go with MySQL.  However, point 2 might take care of that.

 

From: freeradius-users-bounces+jjulson=marketron.com at lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+jjulson=marketron.com at lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Julson, Jim
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:24 PM
To: FreeRadius users mailing list
Subject: RE: New FreeRADIUS Deployment

 

 

1.       What would be recommended server hardware (memory, disk, CPU, ...) and software (Linux distribution, kernel version, ...)?

 

Anything standard and new will do the trick here.  You don't need "Pie in the sky", just make sure you have 

 

2.       How could I synchronize both servers' users?  I mean, in the beginning, I'd have two separate /etc/shadow files but this is not scalable.  I need to share a single file between both servers.  Is it possible?  How?

 

Do you have a SAN that you could utilize?  For performance, I'd suggest a MySQL Cluster running on something with quite a few spindles.  The SAN provides great performance in that arena.  Otherwise, you are looking at having to do a Master/Slave scenario for MySQL DB Replication

 

3.       Any recommendations to the backup policy?

 

Just your standard nightly full backups to disk, then to either tape, SAN or offsite storage of some kind.

 

Best regards,

 

Maurício Harley 
Suporte Técnico 
Cisco IP Phone:  +55 (85) 3133-7910
Auriga Tecnologia & Negócios 
  
Cisco SILVER Certified Partner 
IBM Business Partner

 

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