Radius Service

Overview

The Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that allows centralized authentification.

The Centreon Monitoring Connector Radius Service aims to collect the status and response time of a RADIUS server login.

Pack assets

Monitored objects

• RADIUS server

Collected metrics & status

Radius-Login

Metric name	Description	Unit
status	Login status
radius.response.time.seconds	Login response time	seconds

Prerequisites

For this Monitoring Connector you will need :

• A RADIUS server
• An username and password used for authentication
• The RADIUS server secret

Setup

Online License

1. Install the Centreon package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor RADIUS ressources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Protocol-Radius

2. On the Centreon Web interface, install the Radius Service Centreon Monitoring Connector on the Configuration > Monitoring Connectors Manager page

Offline License

1. Install the Centreon package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor RADIUS ressources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Protocol-Radius

2. Install the Radius Service Centreon Monitoring Connector RPM on the Centreon Central server:

yum install centreon-pack-applications-protocol-radius

3. On the Centreon Web interface, install the Radius Service Centreon Monitoring Connector on the Configuration > Monitoring Connectors Manager page

Configuration

Host

• Log into Centreon and add a new Host through "Configuration > Hosts".
• Fill the "Name", "Alias" & "IP Address / DNS" fields according to your RADIUS Server settings
• Select the Applications-Protocol-Radius-custom template to apply to the Host
• Once the template applied, some Macros marked as 'Mandatory' hereafter have to be configured.

Mandatory	Name	Description
X	RADIUSUSERNAME	RADIUS server username
X	RADIUSPASSWORD	RADIUS server password
X	RADIUSADDR	RADIUS server address
X	RADIUSSECRET	RADIUS server shared secret
	EXTRAOPTIONS	Any extra option you may want to add to every command_line (eg. a --verbose flag)

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for ?

Once the plugin installed, log into your Centreon Poller CLI using the centreon-engine user account and test the Plugin by running the following command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_protocol_radius.pl  \
   --plugin=apps::protocols::radius::plugin  \
   --mode=login  \
   --hostname=  \
   --secret=''  \
   --username=''  \
   --password=''   \
   --warning-status=''  \
   --critical-status='%{status} ne "accepted"'  \
   --warning-time='2'  \
   --critical-time='3'  \
   --use-new-perfdata 

Expected command output is shown below:

OK : Radius Access Request Status: accepted | 'radius.response.time.seconds'=1s;0:2;0:3;; 

This command would trigger a WARNING alarm if the login response time is reported as over 2 seconds (--warning-time='2') and a CRITICAL alarm over 3 seconds (--critical-time='3') or if the login status if different than "accepted".

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --help parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_protocol_radius.pl  \
   --plugin=apps::protocols::radius::plugin  \
   --mode=login  \
   --help

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --list-mode parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_protocol_radius.pl  \
   --plugin=apps::protocols::radius::plugin  \
   --list-mode

Troubleshooting

UNKNOWN: Login endpoint returns error code 'Auth_TIMEOUT'

If you get this message, you're probably facing one of theses issues:

• Your RADIUS server isn't started
• An external device is blocking your request (firewall, ...)

UNKNOWN: Login endpoint returns error code 'Bad Response from server'

This error means the secret used to authenticate the RADIUS server is wrong.