Accounting Relay to Fortigate - Issue with accounting file

[Hitesh Vinzoda]

Hi Alan et al,

Apologies for the cluttered email.

Detail listener /var/log/freeradius/radacct/detail state unopened signalled 0 waiting 1.086950 sec 
Waking up in 1.0 seconds. 
Polling for detail file /var/log/freeradius/radacct/detail 
Detail listener /var/log/freeradius/radacct/detail state unopened signalled 0 waiting 0.762697 sec 
Waking up in 0.7 seconds. 
^C 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct# ls -lrt 
total 4 
drwxr-xr-x 2 freerad freerad 4096 Oct 18 05:08 192.168.1.2 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct# 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct# 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct# ls -lrt 
total 4 
drwxr-xr-x 2 freerad freerad 4096 Oct 18 05:08 192.168.1.2 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct# cd 192.168.1.2/ 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/192.168.1.2# ls -lrt 
total 8 
-rw------- 1 freerad freerad  141 Oct 17 18:14 auth-detail-20171017 
-rw------- 1 freerad freerad 1267 Oct 18 05:41 auth-detail-20171018 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/192.168.1.2# 


FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.12 

Hi, 

I am setting up freeRADIUS to forward accounting requests to Fortigate. I have done the configuration but i am observing messages as below; 

Detail listener /var/log/freeradius/radacct/detail state unopened signalled 0 waiting 1.086950 sec 
Waking up in 1.0 seconds. 
Polling for detail file /var/log/freeradius/radacct/detail 
Detail listener /var/log/freeradius/radacct/detail state unopened signalled 0 waiting 0.762697 sec 
Waking up in 0.7 seconds. 
^C 


root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct# ls -lrt 
total 4 
drwxr-xr-x 2 freerad freerad 4096 Oct 18 05:08 192.168.1.2 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct# cd 192.168.1.2/ 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/192.168.1.2# ls -lrt 
total 8 
-rw------- 1 freerad freerad  141 Oct 17 18:14 auth-detail-20171017 
-rw------- 1 freerad freerad 1267 Oct 18 05:41 auth-detail-20171018 
root at user-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/192.168.1.2# 


FreeRADIUS Version is 2.1.12 

I have modified the modules/detail file to log all accounting packets to a single detail file as below 

Comment the line below by adding the # in front: 
#  detailfile = ${radacctdir}/%{%{Packet-Src-IP-Address}:-%{Packet-Src-IPv6-Address}}/detail-%Y%m%d 

detailfile = ${radacctdir}/detail 

I can see that it is not creating detail file and above log messages keeps on repeating for polling the detail file. 

I m not sure if should be seeing those messages during debug. Currently i dont have clients to simulate but will be made available tomorrow hence i m trying to be more proactive that the relay should work.

Any pointers are appreciated. I am going through the documentation but any interim help is appreciated.

Cheers


Hitesh Vinzoda







On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 10:48 PM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:




> On Oct 17, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Hitesh Vinzoda via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> 
> Cluttered Email - Resending again

  Fix your mailer to post text, not HTML.  That way it won't mangle the debug output.

  The text you posted is incomprehensible, so I won't bother trying to figure it out.

  Instead, I'll suggest that you follow the documentation.  See the file sites-available/decoupled-accounting.  That contains examples and documentation for how to configure detail file relaying.

  Or, see sites-available/copy-acct-to-home-server.  That contains more examples and documentation.

  i.e. instead of giving a partial summary of what you did and asking "what went wrong?", you should follow the existing documentation and examples.  If it doesn't work, you can then explain what you did, and what happened.

  And post messages which aren't mangled.  That makes it much easier to help you.

  Alan DeKok.