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Activity monitor applet
- The Activity monitor applet shows you:
- Current connected users.
- Historical data about who was connected and when.
View Users Login History
- Click on the Activity Monitor Icon on the homepage of RADIUSdesk. The Activity Monitor Window opens.
Under the Authentication data tab you will see a history of all the User logins.
View Users Currently online
To show a list of Users currently logged-in only:
- Click the Currently Connected Button on the Action Toolbar in the Activity Monitor Window.
This button works as a toggle to switch between Login History and Currently Connected.
Refreshing the Login Data
The first button on the Action Toolbar in the Activity Monitor Window is the Reload button.
- Click on the Reload button to refresh the list to the latest available Accounting Data.
To set an Automatic Reload Interval for the Activity List:
- Click on the arrow next to the Reload button.
- From the Drop-down list select the time frame in which you want the Activity List to Refresh. The Reload button will change to a Stopwatch.
Export CSV
- You can filter some data out and the export the result to a CSV file using this button.
Usage graph
- To get graphical detail in the connection simply select an item in the list and click on this button.
- A new tab will open with more detail on the usage of the device, user or voucher.
Extra actions
Kick user off
- This button will try to initialize a disconnect request from RADIUSdesk to the NAS where a user is connected.
- At the time of this writing only the following NAS devices are supported.
- Coova Chilli captive portals
- Mikrotik hotspots
- In order for this the work correct a few things has to be in place which are discussed in these two NAS client's Wiki Pages.
- If you have any other type of NAS devices the kick button will do nothing.
- Remember that the kick button only work with Coova Chilli and Mikrotik
- The kick button will have no effect on other NAS devices.
Close session
- There is no tight coupling between a RADIUS server and a NAS device.
- This means that the information reflected on RADIUSdesk about who is connected might not be correct.
- If for instance the NAS to which the users were connected hanged, RADIUSdesk will not be aware of this and show the users as still connected.
- When this happens, we can use the Close session button to close these open sessions to give an indication of the true situation.
- When you add a NAS device you can edit it afterwards and go to Nas → Enhancements sub tab.
- This tab allow you to specify Auto close stale sessions along with a time which after there were no updates on the accounting data of a user we assume the NAS has problems and will close any open sessions for that NAS device
FreeRADIUS info
- This tab will list the current stats from the FreeRADIUS program.
- It will list:
- The Authentication requests
- The Accounting requests
- As you can see from the screenshot there is a large amount of failed Authentication requests. This is because we have MAC Authentication activated on some of our hotspots.
- As of this writing the filter per NAS is not yet implemented.
