timer quiet (RADIUS scheme view)

Syntax

timer quiet minutes

undo timer quiet

View

RADIUS scheme view

Default level

2: System level

Parameters

minutes: Server quiet period in minutes, in the range of 0 to 255. If you set this argument to 0, when the switch attempts to send an authentication or accounting request but the current server is unreachable, the switch sends the request to the next server in active state, without changing the current server’s status. As a result, when the switch attempts to send a request of the same type for another user, it still tries to send the request to the current server because the current server is in active state.

Description

Use timer quiet to set the quiet timer for the servers. This timer controls whether the switch changes the status of an unreachable server from active to blocked, and how long the switch keeps an unreachable server in blocked state.

Use undo timer quiet to restore the default.

By default, the server quiet period is 5 minutes.

If you determine that the primary server is unreachable because the switch’s port connected to the server is out of service temporarily or the server is busy, you can set the server quiet period to 0 so that the switch uses the primary server whenever possible.

Be sure to set the server quiet timer properly. Too short a quiet timer may result in frequent authentication or accounting failures because the switch has to repeatedly try to communicate with an unreachable server that is in active state.

Related commands: display radius scheme.

Examples

# Set the quiet timer for the servers to 10 minutes.

<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] radius scheme radius1
[Sysname-radius-radius1] timer quiet 10