Administrator Guide

Security Commands 934
Syntax
automate-tester username user-name [idle-time minutes]
no automate-tester username
• username user-name—Configure the user name to use to test the
RADIUS server for liveness. The user-name should not be configured on
the RADIUS server.
• idle-time minutes—Configure the idle time (in minutes) after which the
server is quarantined and sending of test packets commences. The range is
1 to 35791 minutes.
Default Configuration
There is no default user name.
The default idle time is 60 minutes.
Command Mode
RADIUS Authentication Server Configuration mode
RADIUS Accounting Server Configuration mode
User Guidelines
RADIUS servers are tested periodically for liveness. Liveness of a server is
determined by sending an Access-Request to the server using a configurable
dummy login. If an Access-Request is returned, the server is marked alive and
is available for use for authentication. The radius deadtime configured retries
and timeouts are applied. It is suggested that the configured values be the
same as the normal RADIUS values. If a RADIUS server fails to respond, it is
marked dead.
Configuring the user-name parameter as a login on the RADIUS server will
induce state on the server as the server will wait for further packets from the
switch. The switch will not send any further RADIUS packets to remove the
state from the RADIUS server.
The user-name parameter accepts any printable character. Enclose the
parameter in double quotes to configure embedded blanks in the user name.
Successive invocations of the automate-tester command overwrite the
previous values.