That's where I was headed with the original question. Whether the commands can 
be run locally against the server itself.  Make the call to itself essentially..

Thoughts

MH
On 2012-12-05, at 5:31 PM, Hugh Irvine wrote:

> 
> Hi Michael -
> 
> In that case I would probably just write a little Perl script to run whatever 
> command(s) you wish against the Monitor port.
> 
> You don't need to use Radar - you can use anything to connect to the Monitor 
> port.
> 
> regards
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> On 6 Dec 2012, at 09:24, Michael Hulko <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hugh..
>> 
>> Thought of that, but the StatsLog records ALL statistics not just from the 
>> server but all the Realms; Clients; AuthBy's etc.....not that it is large in 
>> our case...after testing this, we are left with approx. 10 entries plus the 
>> header per interval cycle, however, since the log is Appended, we would need 
>> to write something a little more sophisticated to
>> grep the values we want and to ensure the timing between the StatsLog 
>> interval and the SNMP call for the data is synchronized as not to cause 
>> problems which is why we were looking into the Monitor language to execute 
>> on demand and respond only with the Server level information.  Unless I 
>> missed something in the docs
>> related to the StatsLog that weeds out the additional details.  We are 
>> contemplating just programtically removing the Statistics file after each 
>> call just to keep it pruned.  
>> 
>> What would be best is to be able to have RADAR write these values as they 
>> are monitored into a RRD type  flat file/database for reading by other 
>> systems from a historical perspective.
>> 
>> Thanks anyway, I thought I would just ask.  Is there anything that would 
>> prevent us from adjusting the RADAR code to facilitate our needs by our 
>> developers?
>> 
>> regards;
>> 
>> MH :)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2012-12-05, at 5:05 PM, Hugh Irvine wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello Michael -
>>> 
>>> Why don't you just use the StatsLog clause?
>>> 
>>> See sections 5.94 and 5.95 in the manual ("doc/ref.pdf").
>>> 
>>> regards
>>> 
>>> Hugh
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 6 Dec 2012, at 03:29, Michael Hulko <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It describes the command language from an external source point of view ( 
>>>> if I read correctly ).. not from the Radiator server itself.
>>>> 
>>>> What the challenge is we want to monitor the Radius servers from another 
>>>> source such as Nagios, Whatsup Gold etc.  We were looking at Radar and as 
>>>> impressive as it is,
>>>> it does not store the data historically, which is what our requirements 
>>>> are.  The SNMP side of the monitoring does not give us the complete 
>>>> picture, as it there is no oid for
>>>> the "Response Time" value that Radar <-> Monitor <-> StatsLog provides 
>>>> unless I am missing something.  So, what we have done in the past is 
>>>> created a local custom SNMP variable through various means for us to
>>>> monitor and collect stats from other systems.  We could parse through the 
>>>> StatsLog, however, this requires a fair bit of logic and programming and 
>>>> not to mention timing.
>>>> 
>>>> Having tested the Monitor command language running the command "STATS ." 
>>>> we find we can parse the values simply.  In order for us to define a 
>>>> custom SNMP oid variable
>>>> we need to be able to run this locally on the server itself.
>>>> 
>>>> If there is a way that Radar could provide historical and / or write the 
>>>> values into a log file for extraction would be easier.
>>>> 
>>>> Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your time and input
>>>> 
>>>> MH
>>>> 
>>>> On 2012-12-04, at 4:19 PM, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 12/04/2012 09:43 PM, Michael Hulko wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Just wondering if there is a way to execute the Monitor command language
>>>>>> local to the Radiator server?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does section 25 "Monitor command language" in doc/ref.pdf describe what
>>>>> you are looking for?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
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>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Hugh Irvine
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>> Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server 
>>> anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, 
>>> Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
>>> TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
>>> DIAMETER etc. 
>>> Full source on Unix, Windows, MacOSX, Solaris, VMS, NetWare etc.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Michael Hulko
>> Network Analyst
>> 
>> Western University Canada
>> Network Operations Centre
>> Information Technology Services
>> 1393 Western Road, SSB 3300CC
>> London, Ontario  N6G 1G9
>> 
>> tel: 519-661-2111 x81390
>> e-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Hugh Irvine
> [email protected]
> 
> Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server 
> anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, 
> Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
> TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
> DIAMETER etc. 
> Full source on Unix, Windows, MacOSX, Solaris, VMS, NetWare etc.
> 



Michael Hulko
Network Analyst

Western University Canada
Network Operations Centre
Information Technology Services
1393 Western Road, SSB 3300CC
London, Ontario  N6G 1G9

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