How Do I...

1. How to assign IP address to a user?
2. How do I control concurrent access?
3. How do I log only 'stop' accounting records?
4. How do I log current date and time in CSV format?
5. How do I see what users are currently connected to a NAS?
6. How do I configure ANI or DNIS authentication?

1. How to assign IP address to a user?

ClearBox can assign static IP addresses to users. It is done via 'Reply List'. First, you need to add the new field to your database, where IP addresses are stored. They can be stored as integer numbers, but string form is more handful. Next, you need to add a new item to the Reply List.

Click '+' button near the list, select 'Attributes by database query' option and the necessary database from the list. Finally, input the query command which selects the proper value for a user. It may be like this:

select 'Framed-IP-Address', UserIPAddress from Users where Name='$u'
          

2. How do I control concurrent access?

ClearBox allows limiting the number of simultaneous connections a user may establish. You should have a state server configured. After that you may either set the limit for a realm (so this limit is for all users authenticated in this realm) or separately for each user stored in a database.

In the first case select the realm, switch to 'Authentication' tab, input the limit number in Maximum number of concurrent sessions box, then select a configured state server from the State server ID list.

In the second case there should be a filed in the database, where the limit number is set. You may check this limit in a authentication query command using %s key which denotes the number of sessions already established by the user. The authentication query may be:

select Password from Users where Name='$u' and Enabled=true and 
        (MaxCurrentSessions=0 OR MaxCurrentSessions<$s)
                

3. How do I log only Accounting-Stop records?

You may control, what packets are logged, and what not, for each accounting method turned on. Select the realm you need to configure, switch to the 'Accounting' tab and click 'Logged Status Types' button near the proper accounting method. Check those status types which are to be logged, and click OK.

4. How do I log current date and time in CSV format?

You may use 'Date' and 'Time' attributes to log date and time respectively. Just add them to the list of attributes. These attributes are not standard-defined and are used by ClearBox internally.

5. How do I see what users are currently connected to a NAS?

You should have a state server configured to enable this capability. After that you may query the state server table using your own tools.

6. How do I configure ANI or DNIS authentication?

You may set these features using 'user name rewriting'. Select the necessary realm, click Select Attribute button. When the dialog window is brought up, select Take the user name from option, then select the proper attribute. Select 'Called-Station-ID' to make called phone number be placed as a user name. Select 'Calling-Station-ID' for ANI authentication.