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SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
Information About SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
How to Configure SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
Configuring Per-Service Accounting in a RADIUS Service Profile
Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Host
Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Service
Configuration Examples for SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Host: Example
Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Service: Example
SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
The SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records feature allows you to turn off unneeded Service Selection Gateway (SSG) accounting records. You can configure SSG to send per-host accounting records only, per-service accounting records only, or per-host and per-service accounting records.
Release Modification12.2(16)B
This feature was introduced.
12.3(4)T
This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)T.
Feature History for SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records Feature
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Contents
•Information About SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
•How to Configure SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
•Configuration Examples for SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
Information About SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
To configure this feature, you should understand the following concepts:
•SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
Overview of SSG
Service Selection Gateway (SSG) is a switching solution for service providers who offer intranet, extranet, and Internet connections to subscribers using broadband access technology such as digital subscriber lines (DSL), cable modems, or wireless to allow simultaneous access to network services.
SSG works in conjunction with the Cisco Service Selection Dashboard (SSD) or its successor product, the Cisco Subscriber Edge Services Manager (SESM). Together with the SESM or SSD, SSG provides subscriber authentication, service selection, and service connection capabilities to subscribers of Internet services. Subscribers interact with an SESM or SSD web application using a standard Internet browser.
SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
The SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records feature allows you to turn off unneeded SSG accounting. You can configure SSG to send per-host accounting records only, per-service accounting records only, or per-host and per-service accounting records. You can also disable SSG accounting so that no accounting records are sent.
How to Configure SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
This section contains the following procedures:
•Configuring Per-Service Accounting in a RADIUS Service Profile
•Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Host
•Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Service
Configuring Per-Service Accounting in a RADIUS Service Profile
The RADIUS service profile L attribute can be used to enable or disable SSG connection accounting in a service profile.
If SSG accounting is enabled on a router with the ssg accounting command, the accounting parameters configured in a service profile take precedence over the accounting parameters configured with the ssg accounting command. For example, if both per-host and per-service accounting are configured by using the ssg accounting command on the router, but in a service profile accounting is disabled, then per-service accounting records will not be sent for that service.
If no ssg accounting is configured on the router, accounting records will not be sent, even if accounting is enabled in a service profile.
To enable or disable SSG connection accounting, configure "enable" or "disable" after the interval configuration, as in the following example of a service profile configuration:
Use r= proxy_1 {9, 251 = `R122.22.0.0; 255.255.0.0'9, 251 = `L0;disable'}Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Host
Perform this task to enable per-host accounting.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. ssg accounting per-host interval seconds
DETAILED STEPS
Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Service
Perform this task to configure SSG per-service accounting.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. ssg accounting per-service interval seconds
DETAILED STEPS
Configuration Examples for SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records
•Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Host: Example
•Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Service: Example
Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Host: Example
The following example configures SSG accounting per-host:
Router(config)# ssg accounting per-host interval 80Configuring SSG Accounting Per-Service: Example
The following example configures SSG accounting per-service:
Router(config)# ssg accounting per-service interval 80Additional References
The following sections provide references related to SSG Suppression of Unused Accounting Records.
Related Documents
Standards
Standards TitleNo new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature.
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MIBs
Technical Assistance
Command Reference
This section documents a modified command. All other commands used with this feature are documented in the Cisco IOS Release 12.3 T command reference publications.
ssg accounting
To enable Service Selection Gateway (SSG) accounting, use the ssg accounting command in global configuration mode. To disable SSG accounting, use the no form of this command.
ssg accounting [per-host] [per-service] [interval seconds]
no ssg accounting [per-host] [per-service] [interval seconds]
Syntax Description
Defaults
Accounting is enabled.
The interval is set at 600 seconds.Command Modes
Global configuration
Command History
Usage Guidelines
The ssg accounting command enables the sending of start, stop, and interim accounting records for hosts and connections.
Examples
The following example shows how to enable the sending of per-host SSG accounting records at intervals of 60 seconds:
Router(config)# ssg accounting per-host interval 60