Reporting on active users using radwho

[Djerk Geurts]

@Olivier,
Wired, they're xDSL PPPoE users.

On 16 May 2022, 17:50, at 17:50, Olivier <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>@Djerk:
>For curiosity's sake, are your users wired or wireless connected ?
>
>Le jeu. 12 mai 2022 à 13:00, Djerk Geurts via Freeradius-Users
><freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> a écrit :
>>
>> Over the last week, I’ve spent some time getting radsniff telemetry
>into Grafana via Collectd and Telegraf. Sadly radsniff direct to
>Telegraf doesn’t work, but that’s another story.
>>
>> Wanting to graph online users I then scripted a rough little bit of
>bash to take the output of `radwho -r -n` and output the number of
>active users in influx format to Telegraf. However I’ve noticed that at
>midnight the reported online users drop to 0 to then slowly ramp up
>again. This may well be normal behaviour for what I should expect from
>rad who output, but it’s not what I’d like to see in my graph, it’s
>worrying to see the number of active xDSL subscribers drop to 0. I’d
>rather avoid having to state such a caveat.
>>
>> Is there a better way to track active users using the data available
>from FreeRADIUS server, its tools or directly from the (MySQL)
>database?
>>
>> —
>> Thanks,
>> Djerk Geurts
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