How to Change the Cisco CNS Access Registrar RexAcctScript to Produce a CSV-Format in the Accounting File

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Updated:January 19, 2006
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Introduction

This document explains how to manually edit the Cisco CNS Access Registrar RexAcctScript so that your accounting log files reflect a CSV-format.

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The information in this document is based on Cisco CNS Access Registrar versions 1.7 and 3.0.

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Edit the RexAcctScript

If you want your accounting log files to reflect a CSV-format that can be used in your billing applications, edit the RexAcctScript manually and recompile it. The file is located by default at $ARINSTALLPATH/examples/rexacctscript/AcctAsScript.cpp.

To change the format of the accounting, make the changes shown in this table:

Line Number AR 1.7 Line number AR 3.0 From To
2080 2090 *(pEnd++) = "\n"; *(pEnd++) = ",";
2069 2079 *(pEnd++) = "\t"; *(pEnd++) = " ";

Note: " " contains a space.

For you compile and install the RexAcctScript script, use gcc 2.95-3. For additional details, refer to Cisco CNS Access Registrar User's Guide - Using the REX Accounting Script.

The output of the accounting file needs to look something like this: 

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:15:22 
User-Name = sven, NAS-IP-Address = 10.200.68.2, NAS-Port = 2, Service-Type = NAS Prompt, 
Calling-Station-Id = 172.17.246.244, Acct-Status-Type = Start, Acct-Delay-Time = 0, 
Acct-Session-Id = 0000000D, Acct-Authentic = RADIUS, NAS-Port-Type = Virtual,,,,, 
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:15:23 User-Name = sven, NAS-IP-Address = 10.200.68.2, NAS-Port = 2, 
Service-Type = NAS Prompt, Calling-Station-Id = 172.17.246.244, Acct-Status-Type = Stop, 
Acct-Delay-Time = 0, Acct-Session-Id = 0000000D, Acct-Authentic = RADIUS, 
Acct-Session-Time = 1, Acct-Terminate-Cause = User Request, NAS-Port-Type = Virtual,,,,,

The accounting files now contain a comma (",") between each entry.

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Revision History

Revision Publish Date Comments
1.0
19-Jan-2006
Initial Release

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