Lightweight parser for locating entries in the FreeRADIUS log files by MAC address

The goal of developing and supporting this parser script, is to help analyzing the log files mainainned by the FreeRADIUS daemon radiusd (the content of those files is in plain text). When analyzing those files, the script is parsing their content line by line, and conditionally performing an additional check, if the line content has pattern mathching the one typical for the WiFi clients' autnetnication requests. That additional check has a goal to check if the MAC address of the client's WiFi adaper matches the one passed to the script as an invoking parameter. If match is found, the script prints the line to the standard output.

The script might be of help to the administrators of the FreeRADIUS servers that are part of the Eduroam infrastructure. Its code could be modified to support specific tasks like grouping the entries in the log files or providing front end to Zabbix agents.

You can get the code of the script and more information at:

https://github.com/vessokolev/radius_log_parser

Categories: Eduroam, FreeRADIUS, log files, MAC address, Python, Python 3.4, Python 3.6