Technical Note: How to enable RADIUS accounting in FortiOS 5.2

[fgilloteau_FTNT]

Description

This article addresses a change between FortiOS v5.0 and FortiOS v5.2.

In FortiOS v5.0, when a RADIUS server is declared, accounting packets are automatically sent.  This is not the case with FortiOS v5.2.

Solution

In FortiOS v5.2, an accounting server must be declared.  This can be done through the CLI:

config user radius
 edit "Radius"
  config accounting-server
   edit 1
     set status enable
     set server "x.x.x.x"
     set secret ENC ***
     set source-ip 0.0.0.0
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