Collecting Application Assurance (AA) accounting statistics

Overview

AA accounting statistics provide information about application use on a SAP or spoke SDP, or by a subscriber in a network.

As least one ISA-AA MDA is required to collect AA accounting statistics.

The NFM-P can collect the following AA statistics types:

AA application
AA application group
AA protocol
AA subscriber protocol (special-study)
AA subscriber application (special-study)
AA subscriber custom record

See “Statistics collection in the NFM-P” in the NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide for general information about configuring and collecting accounting statistics.

See “To configure an AA accounting policy” in the NSP NFM-P Classic Management User Guide for more information.

See “Workflow for accounting statistics collection” in the NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide for the procedure to collect AA statistics.

The statistics can be viewed in graphical or tabular form using the NFM-P GUI, forwarded to a third-party server for processing by an OSS or third-party application, and used for reporting in NSP Analytics reports.

The NFM-P does not store the AA accounting statistics data in its database. Instead, the NFM-P exports the data in IPDR format. The exported files are stored in the aaAccountingStats directory below the OSS XML output directory on a main or auxiliary server station.

See “To configure AA accounting file export” in the NSP NFM-P Classic Management User Guide for more information about configuring an AA accounting policy.

The NFM-P can also collect AA network performance statistics to monitor the AA Cflowd processing load on an ISA-AA module. The procedure to configure and collect AA network performance statistics is similar to AA accounting statistics and statistics data files are stored in aaAccountingStats directory below the OSS XML output directory on a main or auxiliary server station. Follow the procedure described in “To configure an AA accounting policy” in the NSP NFM-P Classic Management User Guide and select statistics type AA Performance.

See the IPDR Reference for comprehensive information about AA accounting and AA network performance statistics types, counters, and IPDR file names for each statistics types.

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