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fix: remove unsupported wait_start attributes from AAA accounting#235

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fix: remove unsupported wait_start attributes from AAA accounting#235
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@ChristopherJHart ChristopherJHart commented Feb 2, 2026

Summary

  • Remove wait_start_* attributes from connections and execs AAA accounting configuration
  • IOS-XE does not support wait-start for these accounting types and silently converts the configuration to start-stop
  • This breaks Terraform idempotency as the provider sends wait-start but the device returns start-stop

Background

Testing on IOS-XE 17.12.x and 17.15.x confirms that wait-start is converted to start-stop:

IOS-XE Version Configuration Entered Running-Config Shows
17.12.1a wait-start group <name> start-stop group <name>
17.12.6 wait-start group <name> start-stop group <name>
17.15.1a wait-start group <name> start-stop group <name>

Cisco documents this behavior with syslog message AAAA-4-UNSUPWAITSTART:

%% AAA: Unsupported option wait-start mapped to start-stop.

Migration

Users should use the equivalent start_stop_* attributes instead, which produce the same device configuration that IOS-XE actually supports.


AI Generation Metadata

  • AI Generated: Yes
  • AI Tool: claude-code
  • AI Model: opus-4
  • AI Reason: remove unsupported wait_start attributes

Remove wait_start_* attributes from connections and execs accounting
configuration. IOS-XE does not support wait-start for these accounting
types and silently converts the configuration to start-stop, which
breaks Terraform idempotency.

Users should use the equivalent start_stop_* attributes instead.

Fixes: netascode/nac-iosxe#1083

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ChristopherJHart ChristopherJHart marked this pull request as draft February 2, 2026 16:46
@aitestino aitestino added the bug Something isn't working label Feb 3, 2026
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