RADIUS configuration 109
SmartWare Software Configuration Guide 8 • RADIUS Client Configuration
The following procedure guides you through the steps necessary to enable RADIUS accounting in an
existing configuration:
Mode: Configure
Step Command Purpose
1 node(cfg)# radius-client
<client-name>
Create a new RADIUS client
2 node(radius)[client-name]#
radius-server <server-
name-or-ip> [<udp-port>]
Define the RADIUS server to be used. If the UDP port is omit-
ted, the default port 1812 is used.
Note For accounting RADIUS servers often use
port 1813)
Note There might also be RADIUS servers, which still
use the old RADIUS ports 1645 or 1646)
3 node(radius)[client-name]#
shared-secret authentica-
tion <secret>
Define the shared secret to access the RADIUS server
4 node(radius)[client-name]#
profile aaa <pf-name>
Create an AAA profile, which uses the RADIUS client
5 node(pf-auth)[pf-name]#
method radius <radius-
client-name>
Define your newly created radius client as the AAA method
to be used.
Note If you require redundancy, you can create multi-
ple radius clients and add all of them to the
AAA profile.
6 node(pf-auth)[pf-name]#
context cs
Switch to the circuit-switching context.
7 node(ctx-cs)[ctx-name]#
service aaa <name>
Create an AAA call-control service
8 node(svc-aaa)[svc-name]#
accounting use profile
<aaa-profile-name>
Define the newly created AAA profile to be used for account-
ing using this AAA service.
9 node(svc-aaa)[svc-name]#
nas-identifier <nas-identi-
fier>
Define the NAS-Identifier string to be included in RADIUS
requests sent from this AAA service.
10
(Optional)
node(svc-aaa)[svc-name]#
authentication use profile
<aaa-profile-name>
Optionally, you can also configure the AAA service to
request authentication using the calls calling E.164 number.
If this is required, you can define the AAA profile used for
authentication using this command.
11
(Optional)
node(svc-aaa)[svc-name]#
accounting-failure-action
[drop-calls | ignore]
Define, if calls shall be dropped, if accounting fails. The
default is to ignore accounting failures.