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WAMS is our full-feature accounting system, with agriculture-friendly options not typically provided by 'off the shelf' software. WAMS is currently being used at small companies with as few as 10 employees, and at large farms writing 1000 or more paychecks each week.
Logging user authentication and accounting requests to a local file. Used primarily for connection analysis and billing purposes. Also useful as a security investigation tool because it provides you with a method of tracking the activity of a malicious user after an attack. You can configure local file logging using the Accounting Configuration wizard.
Logging user authentication and accounting requests to a Microsoft SQL Server XML-compliant database. Used to allow multiple servers running NPS to have one data source. Also provides the advantages of using a relational database. You can configure SQL Server logging by using the Accounting Configuration wizard.
In addition to these settings, both SQL Server logging and text logging allow you to specify whether NPS continues to process connection requests if logging fails. You can specify this in the Logging failure action section in local file logging properties, in SQL server logging properties, and while you are running the Accounting Configuration Wizard.
You can configure Network Policy Server (NPS) to perform Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) accounting for user authentication requests, Access-Accept messages, Access-Reject messages, accounting requests and responses, and periodic status updates. You can use this procedure to configure the log files in which you want to store the accounting data.
To prevent the log files from filling the hard drive, it is strongly recommended that you keep them on a partition that is separate from the system partition. The following provides more information about configuring accounting for NPS:
To send the log file data for collection by another process, you can configure NPS to write to a named pipe. To use named pipes, set the log file folder to \.\pipe or \ComputerName\pipe. The named pipe server program creates a named pipe called \.\pipe\iaslog.log to accept the data. In the Local file properties dialog box, in Create a new log file, select Never (unlimited file size) when you use named pipes.
Switching log file formats does not cause a new log to be created. If you change log file formats, the file that is active at the time of the change will contain a mixture of the two formats (records at the start of the log will have the previous format, and records at the end of the log will have the new format).
NPS formats accounting data as an XML document that it sends to the report_event stored procedure in the SQL Server database that you designate in NPS. For SQL Server logging to function properly, you must have a stored procedure named report_event in the SQL Server database that can receive and parse the XML documents from NPS.
Some RADIUS proxy servers and network access servers periodically send authentication and accounting requests (known as ping requests) to verify that the NPS is present on the network. These ping requests include fictional user names. When NPS processes these requests, the event and accounting logs become filled with access reject records, making it more difficult to keep track of valid records.
When you configure a registry entry for ping user-name, NPS matches the registry entry value against the user name value in ping requests by other servers. A ping user-name registry entry specifies the fictional user name (or a user name pattern, with variables, that matches the fictional user name) sent by RADIUS proxy servers and network access servers. When NPS receives ping requests that match the ping user-name registry entry value, NPS rejects the authentication requests without processing the request. NPS does not record transactions involving the fictional user name in any log files, which makes the event log easier to interpret.
Hi, I have the "Universal Cloud connector" installed on Windows Server 2019, added a Xerox C8055 printer to the server, registered the connector and added the printer. On my Windows 10 PC when I go add a printer the new printer "XeroxAzure" shows up. All seems great.
Then I try to print a document from Word choosing the "XeroxAzure" printer but when I click the printer properties the only options I choose are portrait/landscape and under advanced paper size and copy count.
But just as or more importantly how to pass the account code of the user that is printing? Our printer has the standard accounting enabled and expects to receive a code from each print job identifying the user so we can track for costing etc.
@carloshenriques - you touch upon an interesting topic. Universal Print relies on the printer's driver on connector to get the printer's capabilities. If you look one level deeper, printer capabilities can be defined by printer drivers using either "standard" attributes as per Windows PrintSchema definitions or "custom" attributes. It depends on driver to driver what approach they take. Sometimes different drivers from same manufacturer can behave differently for the same printer.
User account code support doesnt exist in Universal Print currently. Can you add it as a feature request so that others can vote on it? One question though - instead of user's account code, does any other attribute like username work?
@Saurabh_Bansal - thanks for the reply. I had already tried a different driver without any success, well limited success, I can set the "accounting code" on the print driver that is connected to the "connector" but then everyone prints with the same code.
@carloshenriques unfortunately account codes are not supported at this point of time. Are there any other options other than account codes that you may be concerned about? What driver are we referring to here?
In my NPS I've setup a Radius Server Group and set : send accounting messages to , port 1813. I've changed the Connection Policy to forward accounting messages to my Radius Server Group (Sophos XG). But my Sophos XG does not receive any accounting messages. I've installed wireshark on the server which is Running NPS. There is no traffic on port 1813 udp.
But if i enable "Match known users" in my firewall rule. The Wireless Clients can't connect to the internet and i don't want them to use the captive portal because - in theory - they are already authenticated via Radius / WPA2 Enterprise.
FYI : I've successfully used both Meraki and Ruckus AP's in conjunction with the XG Radius accounting feature. As mentioned the only requirement that I'm aware of is the framed address information is sent in the accounting packet - I don't think something like a Unfi AP will provide that information so it's not a given.
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Once you are able to use the old authentication applet to authenticate against NPS, it is just one more step to enable the forwarding of accounting packets from NPS to your Firebox, that completes the SSO requirements on the NPS server.
I have the exact same issue @millerada. My radius server handles authentication and I want it to also serve as a radius proxy and forward accounting info to the watchguard. Despite taking these steps:
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