Tools
FreeRADIUS comes with a set of useful tools that assist you in monitoring and collecting statistics for your system. While there are many third-party tools that offer similar functionality, the reliable and proven tools included with FreeRADIUS are the ones to use.
Each tool has a specific purpose and is designed to work seamlessly together. These tools include:
radclient
Radclient enables you to setup mock clients to perform basic authentication testing. The radius.client file is used to popoulate the list that is read by the radclient tool.
radsniff
Radsniff allows you to inspect and process any type of RADIUS packet that’s on the network. This tool can be used in conjunction with th radclient tool and as well with performance testing.
radmin
Radadmin is a administration tool designed to administer and interact with a running FreeRADIUS server. It enables users to monitor statistics, view configuration, and make changes without the need to restart the server. FreeRADIUS Server is an that connects to the control socket of a running server, providing a command-line interface to manage it.