Freeradius Cacti

[gilubilu]

I am trying to monitor the freeradius server by running a shell script (defined in previous posts) that sends the..

echo "Message-Authenticator = 0x00, FreeRADIUS-Statistics-Type = 3" | radclient 192.168.0.12:18120 status testing123

however when running the script I get the following

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which: no radclient in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)
./radstatus.sh: line 46: radclient: command not found

do I need to have the radclient installed locally on the server running cacti or should it work without the radclient installed locally???

I was under the impression that cacti would somehow connect to the freeradius server and send the command there (to avoid the need for a local radclient)

any help would be appreciated.

[alxgomz]

Yes you *DO* need the radclient binary on the cacti host. That's why the scripts check for it and that's what it reports inthe error message.
If that's a blocker for you, you could rewrite the script in another language so it behave like a radiusclient. You would the depend on the radius client library for you language instead on the C radclient binary.
Not sure how useful it would be.

[gilubilu]

thanks for your reply.. adding radclient is a no go at this point.. I will consider using other methods.

Many thanks!

Cheers

[alxgomz]

Hi gilubilu,

Just being curious. Why is it a "no go"? Is it because of the dependencies (which I could understand, among other libpcap can make some ITs unconfortable)?
Is that just procedure related ( )?
Is that anything else?

Would a custom implementation of a radiusclient be more acceptable (given that the radius bindings for the chosen language would have to be installed)?

Thanks for the informations, Alex.