Enable Aaa Accounting; Suppress Aaa Accounting For Null Username Sessions - Dell Force10 MXL Blade Configuration Manual

• Configure AAA Accounting for Terminal Lines
• Monitor AAA Accounting

Enable AAA Accounting

To create a record for any or all of the accounting functions monitored, use the
To enable AAA accounting, perform the following task in CONFIGURATION mode:
Command Syntax
aaa accounting {system | exec | command
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level} {default name} {start-stop
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wait-start stop-only} {tacacs+}

Suppress AAA Accounting for Null Username Sessions

When you activate AAA accounting, the FTOS software issues accounting records for all users on the
system, including users whose username string, because of protocol translation, is NULL. An example of
this is a user who comes in on a line where the AAA authentication
applied. To prevent accounting records from being generated for sessions that do not have usernames
associated with them, perform the following task in
Command Syntax
aaa accounting suppress null-username
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| Security
(optional)
Command Mode
CONFIGURATION
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Command Mode
CONFIGURATION
(optional)
Purpose
Enable AAA accounting and create a record for
monitoring the accounting function.
The variables are:
• —sends accounting information of any
system
other AAA configuration.
• —sends accounting information when a user
exec
has logged in to the EXEC mode.
• command level —sends accounting of commands
executed at the specified privilege level.
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• —Enter the name of a list of
default name
accounting methods.
• Use for more accounting information,
start-stop—
to send a start-accounting notice at the beginning
of the requested event and a stop-accounting
notice at the end.
• wait-start— ensures that the TACACS+ security
server acknowledges the start notice before
granting the user's process request.
• stop-only —Use for minimal accounting; instructs
the TACACS+ server to send a stop record
accounting notice at the end of the requested user
process.
• —Designate the security service.
tacacs+
Currently, FTOS supports only TACACS+
login method-list none
mode:
CONFIGURATION
Purpose
Prevent accounting records from being generated for
users whose username string is NULL
command.
aaa accounting
command is