radmin metrics

[Alan DeKok]

On May 11, 2017, at 4:58 PM, Michael Hocke <mh103 at nyu.edu> wrote:
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> I wrote a shell script that gives me RADIUS stats in the same fashion as iostat or vmstat. In order to do so I keep running ‘radmin -e “stats client auth”’ every few seconds and parse the output. I’ve got a few questions about radmin stats:
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> - Does the repeated use of radmin impact the server’s performance in any way, i.e. does it skew the collected metrics in any way?

  No.

> - What exactly is the meaning of the “dropped” metric, or better, under what circumstance is a request dropped within the server?

  From the RFCs:  "total request packets dropped for other reasons"

  i.e. not malformed, not wrong secret.  In FreeRADIUS, it's usually because the server is too busy to process new requests/

> - Am I correct to assume that the ‘elapsed.*’ metrics count the number of transaction that took a certain amount of time?

  Yes.

> Would this be the elapsed time between receiving an Accept-Request and the appropriate reply?

  Yes.

  Alan DeKok.