D-Link xStack DES-3800 Series User Manual - Authenticator State
xStack DES-3800 Series Layer 3 Stackable Fast Ethernet Managed Switch
Responses
The number of RADIUS packets received on the accounting port from this server.
MalformedResponses The number of malformed RADIUS Accounting-Response packets received from this
server. Malformed packets include packets with an invalid length. Bad authenticators and
unknown types are not included as malformed accounting responses.
BadAuthenticators
The number of RADIUS Accounting-Response packets, which contained invalid
authenticators, received from this server.
PendingRequests
The number of RADIUS Accounting-Request packets sent to this server that have not yet
timed out or received a response. This variable is incremented when an Accounting-
Request is sent and decremented due to receipt of an Accounting-Response, a timeout or a
retransmission.
Timeouts
The number of accounting timeouts to this server. After a timeout the client may retry to the
same server, send to a different server, or give up. A retry to the same server is counted as
a retransmit as well as a timeout. A send to a different server is counted as an Accounting-
Request as well as a timeout.
UnknownTypes
The number of RADIUS packets of unknown type which were received from this server on
the accounting port.
PacketsDropped
The number of RADIUS packets, which were received from this server on the accounting
port and dropped for some other reason.
Authenticator State
The following section describes the 802.1X Status on the Switch. To view the Authenticator State, click Monitoring > Port
Access Control > Authenticator State.
This window displays the Authenticator State for individual ports on a selected device. To select unit within the switch stack,
use the pull-down menu at the top of the window and click Apply. A polling interval between 1 and 60 seconds can be set using
the drop-down menu at the top of the window and clicking OK.
The information on this window is described as follows:
Parameter Description
Auth PAE State
The Authenticator PAE State value can be: Initialize, Disconnected, Connecting,
Authenticating, Authenticated, Aborting, Held, Force_Auth, Force_Unauth, or N/A. N/A (Not
Available) indicates that the port's authenticator capability is disabled.
Backend State
The Backend Authentication State can be Request, Response, Success, Fail, Timeout,
Idle, Initialize, or N/A. N/A (Not Available) indicates that the port's authenticator capability is
disabled.
Port Status
Controlled Port Status can be Authorized, Unauthorized, or N/A.
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