WLC 4400 and RADIUS accounting

Have trawled what docs there are and cant find out if the RADIUS accounting messages from the 4400 include the name of the lightweight AP handling the user session.
I'm guessing there might be a new Cisco VSA for it.
Anyone know?
Thanks

The error message could be because of any unused protocol.

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