RADIUS and Accounting tools

genie

Hi.

Im going to implement a RADIUS solution for one of my clients, and need a bit of help since this would be a first time for me.
They do have AD, and Im going to use it to authenticate the users. I still need to be able to monitor what they are doing on the switches, and from what I know, RADIUS does not do any accounting. What tool would be a good one to use for this, and what server specs am I looking at for the accounting?
This is a rather big network with offices all over the country, but there will only be a few (10 - 15) admins allowed to log on to the switches. I only need to monitor the switches at this time.
Any ideas/help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

chmorin

I implemented RADIUS in my network not to long ago. I belive it does do some accounting actually, just nothing advanced. This might help point you in the right direction:

FreeRADIUS Active Directory Integration HOWTO - FreeRADIUS Wiki

How many clients/simultaneous connections are we talking? So we can give a guesstimate on what hardware you may need.

docrice

Why not use Microsoft's RADIUS (NPS in Server 2008 and IAS in Server 2003)? The logs can be written in flat files or thrown into SQL Server.