Users Guide

Security Commands 928
Syntax
aaa accounting update {[newinfo][periodic minutes]}
no aaa accounting update
• periodic minutes—The number of minutes to wait before sending the
Interim-Update packet to the RADIUS accounting server. The range for
minutes is from 1 to 10081.
• newinfo—Send the Interim-Update packet to the RADIUS accounting
server whenever new information is available.
Default Configuration
By default, the sending of Interim-Update packets is disabled. There is no
default time period.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
User of the newinfo keyword can cause congestion if many accounted sessions
are present on the switch.
The Interim-Update packet contains the accounting information recorded for
the user session since the last time an accounting record was sent.
If both the periodic and newinfo keywords are configured, Interim-Update
messages are sent whenever new information is available and when the
periodic timer expires.
Use the show authentication clients command to display the discovered IPv4
address/IPv6 address received from the RADIUS server, if any.
Command History
Command introduced in firmware release 6.5.2.