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.