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RADIUS Accounting

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

RADIUS accounting

There are three types of logging for Network Policy Server (NPS):

  • Event logging.

    Used primarily for auditing and troubleshooting connection attempts.

  • 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.

  • 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.

See Also

Concepts

NPS Events and Event Viewer
Configure Log File Properties
Configure SQL Server Logging in NPS