IP Family Usage report

IP Family Usage Report overview

The IP Family Usage report shows the bandwidth usage for a specified set of protocols and applications.

Use cases

Capacity planning—Use the report to examine traffic growth and identify usage patterns for planning future capacity requirements; for example, monitor how quickly IPv6 traffic is growing in the network.

Report characteristics

The following table lists the principal report characteristics.

Table 8-3: IP Family Usage report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Statistics type

AA Cflowd volume application

AA Accounting Configuration – AA Partition. Enable the Collect Traffic Statistics parameter on the AA Accounting Configuration form for the AA Partition accounting policy; see the NSP NFM-P User Guide.

NSP Flow Collector required

Yes

Domains

Residential / Wi-Fi (ESM)

Mobile

Wi-Fi (DSM)

Business

Report inputs

Prompt

Notes

End date

Calendar date or relative date (for example, two days ago) and time

Granularity

Aggregation types:

  • None (raw data)

  • Hourly

  • Daily

  • Monthly

Report range

Length of time to be reported, in minutes, hours, days, or months

Node Type

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

Node

Group/Partition

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Application Group

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

Metrics

Bytes or packets

Traffic Direction

Upload, download, or both

Drill-down support

No

Example

The following figures show a report example. The figures have been altered for size.

Figure 8-7: IP Family Usage Report
IP Family Usage Report
Figure 8-8: IP Family Usage Report, #subscribers per family
IP Family Usage Report, #subscribers per family
Figure 8-9: IP Family Usage Report, continued
IP Family Usage Report, continued