- Radius accounting support for open system ssid profile.
- Used case: When you want to bill users who are all connected in open system SSID.
- Radius accounting has been extended to stations connecting to Open SSID from 6.4.3.0 release.
- This can be done by enabling the Open SSID accounting knob in AAA profile.
We support Radius Accounting Start, Interim & Stop messages
Enable Open SSID Accounting:
# aaa profile Paaa
#open-system-radius-accounting
#!
#show aaa profile Paaa
RADIUS Accounting Server Group svrGrp
Open SSID radius accounting Enabled
To Disable Open SSID Accounting:
# aaa profile Paaa
#no open-system-radius-accounting
#!
- Navigate to Configuration ->All Profile ->Select Wireless LAN
- Select Specified aaa profile under AAA section
- Enable “Open SSID accounting” knob in aaa profile

Enable Below Logs to get the accounting info in Security Logs:
- logging level debugging security
- logging level debugging security process authmgr subcat aaa
Show log security output:
- Radius Accounting Start Message details:

Radius Accounting Stop Message

Radius interim accounting Message:

auth-tracebuf output:
- Jan 18 23:06:39 rad-acct-start -> 00:1c:7b:9e:d9:3a 00:24:6c:80:42:c5/RADIUS - -
- Jan 18 23:11:20 rad-acct-stop -> 00:1c:7b:9e:d9:3a 00:24:6c:80:42:c5/RADIUS
Jan 18 23:25:45 rad-acct-int-update -> 00:1c:7b:9e:d9:3a 00:24:6c:80:42:c5/RADIUS -
- It is not recommended to enable “open ssid radius accounting” for wired users aaa profile.
- On enabling the same the radius accounting packets will be sent for unauthenticated wired users as well.
- No Platform dependency to enable this feature.