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You open the Radius Server agent configuration dialog from a workflow configuration. To open the Radius Server agent configuration, click  Build → New Configuration. Select Workflow from the Configurations dialog. When prompted to Select workflow type, select Realtime. Click Add agent and select Radius Server from the Collection tab of in the Agent Selection dialog.

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In the NAS tab, all NASes that the agent collects information from, are specified.

Setting

Description

Host Address

The IP address or hostname that the NAS , sending packets , is located on.

Secret Key

Key used for authentication of a received packet. This key must be identical to the one defined in the NAS.

If you are defining You can define the NAS you can define them per workflow instances using by setting the property Additional Hosts in the Workflow Table tab in Workflow Properties. By using the Workflow Table tab to set the property Additional Hosts to Default or Per Workflow.

You will When defining the servers, you need to follow a particular json format to define the servers. This format also applies when using External References.the following json format:

Code Block
[{"host":"<host>", "secret":"<encrypted password>"}]

This format also applies when using External References.

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Miscellaneous Tab

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Setting

Description

Port

The port number where on which the Radius Server agent will listen for packets from the NAS(es).

Note

Note!

Since the NASes will be are configured to communicate with a specific host on this port, it is important that the workflow containing the Radius Server agent is must be configured to execute on the EC associated EC for with that host.

Two Radius agents may not cannot be configured to listen on to the same port, on the same host.

PDU Lifetime (millisec)

If you set to a value larger than 0 (zero) , duplicate check in this field, the Duplicate Check setting is activated. The buffer saved for comparison is the packets collected during the set time frame.

Skip MD5 Calculation

If enabled, Select this checkbox to exclude the check for MD5 signatures is excluded. This is necessary if needed when the Radius client does not send MD5 signatures along with the packets, in which case they would be since a check would then result in the packets being discarded by the Radius Server agent.

Note

Note!

When  When Skip MD5 Calculation is enabledselected, the authenticator field in all response messages will be 0 (zero).

Duplicate Check

Checking You can check for duplicate packets can be made based on:

  • Radius Standard - the identifier within the packet (byte number 2).

  • CRC32 - check sum for the complete packet.

When a duplicate is detected, it is silently thrown away (no message is logged) and the Radius agent responds as if a normal packet was received.

Error Handling

Select an Error Route to ensure that all rejected packets are routed into the workflow using this route. This is optional.