Suppress Aaa Accounting For Null Username Sessions; Configure Aaa Accounting For Terminal Lines; Monitor Aaa Accounting - Dell Force10 C150 Configuration Manual

Suppress AAA Accounting for null username sessions

When AAA Accounting is activated, 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
Configure Accounting of EXEC and privilege-level command usage
The network access server monitors the accounting functions defined in the TACACS+ attribute/value
(AV) pairs.
In the following sample configuration, AAA accounting is set to track all usage of EXEC commands and
commands on privilege level 15.
FTOS(conf)#aaa accounting exec default start-stop tacacs+
FTOS(conf)#aaa accounting command 15 default start-stop tacacs+
System accounting can use only the default method list:
aaa accounting system default start-stop tacacs+

Configure AAA Accounting for terminal lines

Use the following commands to enable accounting with a named method list for a specific terminal line
(where com15 and execAcct are the method list names):
FTOS(config-line-vty)# accounting commands 15 com15
FTOS(config-line-vty)# accounting exec execAcct

Monitor AAA Accounting

FTOS does not support periodic interim accounting, because the
congestion when many users are logged in to the network.
CONFIGURATION
Command Mode Purpose
CONFIGURATION Prevent accounting records from being generated for
users whose username string is NULL
login method-list none
mode:
periodic
command can cause heavy
command is
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