Fw: [Emerald] How does Emerald determine login duration ?

Danny Sinang ( (no email) )
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:17:58 +0800

Hello.

I haven't received any reply for my questions below.

Hope to hear from you guys soon.

Thanks.

- Danny

----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Sinang <danny@uplink.com.ph>
To: <emerald@iea-software.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Emerald] How does Emerald determine login duration ?

> Hi Dale,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> More questions though ... How does Emerald's invoicing system sum up the
> login durations for a user ?
>
> If user jake's logins were as follows :
>
> 1. Feb 1, 2000 : 30 seconds
> 2. Feb 2, 2000 : 65 seconds
>
> Would the invoice determine that jake used up 1 minute and 35 seconds ?
Or
> would it say jake used up 2 minutes ?
>
> If the latter case applies, how can we force Emerald to be accurate down
to
> the last second ?
>
> If possible, can you furnish me the logic for invoicing ? I can't find any
> stored procedure that shows how Emerald computes for the charges and puts
> them in the charges table.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Danny
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com>
> To: <emerald@iea-software.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 8:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Emerald] How does Emerald determine login duration ?
>
>
> > Danny Sinang wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > Can somebody tell me how Emerald determines a login duration ?
> >
> > By Acct-Session-Time in the stop record (Ie, the NAS says how many
> > seconds
> > the session lasted).
> >
> > > Does Emerald subtract the login session's Stop time from the Start
time
> ?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > Or does Emerald get the duration from the AcctSessionTime field in the
> Calls
> > > table ?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT
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