freeradius

README

FreeRADIUS monitoring with Netdata

FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance free RADIUS suite.

This module will monitor one or more FreeRADIUS servers, depending on your configuration.

Requirements

• FreeRADIUS with enabled status feature.

The configuration for the status server is automatically created in the sites-available directory. By default, server is enabled and can be queried from every client.

To enable status feature do the following:

• cd sites-enabled
• ln -s ../sites-available/status status
• restart FreeRADIUS server

Metrics

All metrics have "freeradius." prefix.

Metric	Scope	Dimensions	Units
authentication	global	requests, responses	packets/s
authentication_access_responses	global	accepts, rejects, challenges	packets/s
bad_authentication	global	dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types	packets/s
proxy_authentication	global	requests, responses	packets/s
proxy_authentication_access_responses	global	accepts, rejects, challenges	packets/s
proxy_bad_authentication	global	dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types	packets/s
accounting	global	requests, responses	packets/s
bad_accounting	global	dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types	packets/s
proxy_accounting	global	requests, responses	packets/s
proxy_bad_accounting	global	dropped, duplicate, invalid, malformed, unknown-types	packets/s

Configuration

Edit the go.d/freeradius.conf configuration file using edit-config from the Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.

cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
sudo ./edit-config go.d/freeradius.conf

Here is an example for 2 servers:

jobs:
  - name: local
    host: 127.0.0.1

  - name: remote
    host: 203.0.113.10
    secret: secret 

For all available options please see module configuration file.

Troubleshooting

To troubleshoot issues with the freeradius collector, run the go.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.

• Navigate to the plugins.d directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on your system, open netdata.conf and look for the plugins setting under [directories].

  cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
  

• Switch to the netdata user.

  sudo -u netdata -s
  

• Run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector:

  ./go.d.plugin -d -m freeradius
  

Documentation

Index

• type Charts
• type Config
• type Dims
• type FreeRADIUS
  • func New() *FreeRADIUS
  • func (FreeRADIUS) Charts() *Charts
  • func (f FreeRADIUS) Check() bool
  • func (FreeRADIUS) Cleanup()
  • func (f *FreeRADIUS) Collect() map[string]int64
  • func (f *FreeRADIUS) Init() bool

Types

type Charts

type Charts = module.Charts

Charts is an alias for module.Charts

type Config

type Config struct {
	Address string
	Port    int
	Secret  string
	Timeout web.Duration
}

type Dims

type Dims = module.Dims

Dims is an alias for module.Dims

type FreeRADIUS

type FreeRADIUS struct {
	module.Base
	Config `yaml:",inline"`
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

func New

func New() *FreeRADIUS

func (FreeRADIUS) Charts

func (FreeRADIUS) Charts() *Charts

func (FreeRADIUS) Check

func (f FreeRADIUS) Check() bool

func (FreeRADIUS) Cleanup

func (FreeRADIUS) Cleanup()

func (*FreeRADIUS) Collect

func (f *FreeRADIUS) Collect() map[string]int64

func (*FreeRADIUS) Init

func (f *FreeRADIUS) Init() bool