Security; Aaa Accounting; Configuration Task List For Aaa Accounting - Dell Force10 Z9000 Configuration Manual

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Security

Security features are supported on Dell Networking OS.

This chapter describes several ways to provide security to the Dell Networking system.

For details about all the commands described in this chapter, refer to the Security chapter in the Dell Networking OS Command

Reference Guide.

Accounting, authentication, and authorization (AAA) accounting is part of the AAA security model.

For details about commands related to AAA security, refer to the Security chapter in the Dell Networking OS Command Reference

AAA accounting enables tracking of services that users are accessing and the amount of network resources being consumed by

those services. When you enable AAA accounting, the network server reports user activity to the security server in the form of

accounting records. Each accounting record comprises accounting attribute/value (AV) pairs and is stored on the access control

As with authentication and authorization, you must configure AAA accounting by defining a named list of accounting methods and

then applying that list to various virtual terminal line (VTY) lines.

The following sections present the AAA accounting configuration tasks.

Enabling AAA Accounting

Suppressing AAA Accounting for Null Username Sessions

Configuring Accounting of EXEC and Privilege-Level Command Usage

Configuring AAA Accounting for Terminal Lines

Monitoring AAA Accounting

Enabling AAA Accounting

The aaa accounting command allows you to create a record for any or all of the accounting functions monitored.

To enable AAA accounting, use the following command.

Enable AAA accounting and create a record for monitoring the accounting function.

CONFIGURATION mode

aaa accounting {commands | exec | suppress | system level} {default | name} {start-stop |

wait-start | stop-only} {tacacs+}

The variables are:

– system: sends accounting information of any other AAA configuration.

– exec: sends accounting information when a user has logged in to EXEC mode.

– command level: sends accounting of commands executed at the specified privilege level.