Defining Accounting Methods For A Wm-Ad - Extreme Networks Summit WM User Manual

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Only select this checkbox if you are using MAC based authentication and if you want your clients to be
authorized every time they roam to another AP. If this feature is not enabled, and MAC-based authentication is in
use, the client is authenticated only at the start of a session.
16 To save your changes, click Save.

Defining accounting methods for a WM-AD

The next step in configuring a WM-AD is to define the methods of accounting. Accounting tracks the
activity of a wireless device users. There are two types of accounting available:
Summit WM Controller accounting - Enables the Summit WM Controller to generate Call Data
Records (CDRs), containing usage information about each wireless session. CDR generation is
enabled on a per WM-AD basis. For more information on CDRs, refer to
(CDRs)" on page 2883.
RADIUS accounting - Enables the Summit WM Controller to generate an accounting request packet
with an accounting start record after successful login by the wireless device user, and an accounting
stop record based on session termination. The Summit WM Controller sends the accounting requests
to a remote RADIUS server.
Summit WM Controller accounting creates Call Data Records (CDRs). If RADIUS accounting is enabled,
a RADIUS accounting server needs to be specified.
To define accounting methods for a WM-AD:
1 From the main menu, click WM Access Domain Configuration. The WM Access Domain
Configuration page is displayed.
2 In the left pane WM Access Domains list, click the WM-AD you want to define accounting methods
for. The Topology tab is displayed.
3 Click the Auth & Acct tab.
4 To enable Summit WM Controller accounting, select Collect Accounting Information of Summit
Controller.
5 From the RADIUS drop-down list, click the server you want to use for RADIUS accounting, and
then click Use. The server's default information is displayed and a red asterisk is displayed next to
Acct, indicating that a server has been assigned.
The RADIUS servers are defined on the Global Settings page. For more information, see
global settings" on page
6 Select Use server for RADIUS Accounting.
7 In the Port box, type the port used to access the RADIUS server. The default is 1812.
8 In the # of Retries box, type the number of times the Summit WM Controller will attempt to access
the RADIUS server.
9 In the Timeout box, type the maximum time that a Summit WM Controller will wait for a response
from the RADIUS server before attempting again.
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