Authentication Monitoring

The Authentication Monitoring table displays for each of the Authentication Servers the following counters:

Counter

Description

Round Trip Time

The time interval (in hundredths of a second) between the most recent Access-Reply/Access-Challenge and the Access-Request that matched it from this server.

Access Requests

The number of RADIUS Access-Request packets sent to this server. This does not include retransmissions.

Access Retransmissions

The number of RADIUS Access-Request packets retransmitted to this server.

Access Accepts

The number of RADIUS Access-Accept packets (valid or invalid) received from this server.

Access Rejects

The number of RADIUS Access-Reject packets (valid or invalid) received from this server.

Access Challenges

The number of RADIUS Access-Challenge packets (valid or invalid) received from this server.

Malformed Access Responses

The number of malformed RADIUS Access-Response (Access-Accept, Access-Challenge or Access-Reject) packets received from this server. Malformed packets include packets with an invalid length. Bad authenticators or Signature attributes or unknown types are not included.

Bad Authenticators

The number of RADIUS Access-Response packets containing invalid authenticators or Signature attributes received from this server.

Pending Requests

The number of RADIUS Access-Request packets destined for this server that have not yet timed out or received a response. This counter is incremented when an Access-Request is sent and decremented due to receipt of an Access-Accept, Access-Reject or Access-Challenge, a timeout or retransmission.

Timeouts

The number of authentication timeouts to this server. After a timeout the client may retry to the same server, send to a different server, or give up. A retry to the same server is counted as a retransmit as well as a timeout. A send to a different server is counted as a Request as well as a timeout.

Packets Of Unknown Type

The number of RADIUS packets of unknown type which were received from this server on the authentication port.

Packets Dropped

The number of RADIUS packets of which were received from this server on the authentication port and dropped for any reason.

Click on the Reset Auth Counters to reset the Authentication Counters.