{"id":796,"date":"2013-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2013\/08\/01\/f5-ltm-how-to-enable-tacacs-accounting\/"},"modified":"2021-08-01T03:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T03:52:05","slug":"f5-ltm-how-to-enable-tacacs-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Loadbalancers\/F5-BIG-IP\/f5-ltm-how-to-enable-tacacs-accounting.html","title":{"rendered":"F5 LTM &#8211; How to enable TACACS+ Accounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TACACS%2B\">TACACS+<\/a> accounting was first supported within BIG-IP version 10.2.0.\u00a0 Within this article we will show your the commands required to enable this feature.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h3\"><strong>Configure<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>First of all you will need to enable accounting within your authentication settings (this can be found within the GUI under &#8216;System \/ Users \/ Authentication&#8217;)<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint&quot;\">modify sys db config.auditing.forward.destination value 162.13.46.12\r\nmodify sys db config.auditing.forward.sharedsecret value abc123\r\nmodify sys db config.auditing.forward.type value tacacs+\r\nmodify sys db config.auditing value info\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #808080;\">&lt;-- logs cli changes<\/span>\r\nmodify sys db log.mcpd.level value info \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #808080;\">&lt;-- logs gui changes<\/span>\r\nsave \/sys config<\/pre>\n<h2 class=\"h3\"><strong>Output<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Below provides a sample of the accounting output (taken from the TACACS+ server).<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint&quot;\">root@ubuntu-13:~# tail -f \/var\/log\/tac_plus.acct\r\nJul 26 15:47:01 86.147.23.10\u00a0\u00a0 user1\u00a0\u00a0 unknown unknown update\u00a0 service=system\u00a0 protocol=ip\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \r\ntask_id=41\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 start_time=1374853572\u00a0\u00a0 event=cmd_acct\u00a0 rea 0 - obj_delete { monitor { monitor_\r\nname \"MON-HTTP-SALT\" monitor_owner 1 } } [Status=Command OK]<\/pre>\n<h2 class=\"h3\"><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Below are the references used to build this the configuration within this article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devcentral.f5.com\/tech-tips\/articles\/v10-remote-authorization-via-tacacs-43#.UfKHI20kzZc\" class=\"broken_link\">v.10 &#8211; Remote Authorization via TACACS+<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.f5.com\/kb\/en-us\/solutions\/public\/13000\/700\/sol13762\">Configuring remote RADIUS or TACACS+ accounting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACACS+ accounting was first supported within BIG-IP version 10.2.0.\u00a0 Within this article we will show your the commands required to enable this feature. 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