Accounting statistics

Overview

Accounting statistics are available for network ports, SAPs, SDPs, and subscribers. Service accounting statistics typically provide service-usage data for billing requirements. Network accounting statistics provide service-quality data for SLA QoS compliance requirements. Subscriber accounting statistics provide subscriber profile usage information for billing and SLA compliance.

The information in an accounting statistics record includes the following:

Table 10-4: Accounting statistics record properties

Property

Description

Accounting Policy ID

The NFM-P accounting policy ID, which is optional; inclusion can be enabled from the NFM-P System Preferences form, and is disabled by default

Final Count

Contains a value greater than zero when a subscriber or SAP is deleted after the previous collection. The value represents the ordinal of the deleted object; for example, if the object is the first object deleted since the previous collection, the value is 1; the property has a value of 2 in the record of the second object deleted during the same collection interval, and so on.

Forwarding Class

Forwarding class associated with a queue

Lag Port

Identifies a LAG port

Monitored Object

Detailed information about the object for which the statistics are collected

Monitored Object Name

Name of the object for which the statistics are collected

Periodic Time

Not applicable to accounting statistics

Port Id

Identifies a port

Queue Id

Identifies a hardware queue

Record Type

Type of collection, for example, Scheduled Full

Sap Id

Physical port identifier portion of a SAP definition

Sdp Id

Identifies an SDP

Site ID

Identifies a site

Site Name

Identifies the name of a site

SlaProfile Id

Identifies the value assigned to an SLA profile

Group ID

Identifies the ISA-AA group

Partition ID

Identifies the partition ID within an ISA-AA group

Subscriber Id

Identifies a subscriber

Subscriber Profile Id

Identifies a subscriber profile

Svc Id

Identifies a service

Time Captured

Time when the NFM-P starts to process the data file collected from the NE

Time Recorded

Time when the statistics were collected on the NE

All accounting statistics share certain common properties, with some additional properties for each statistic type.

Table 10-5: Accounting statistics common properties

Statistic Type

Properties

All

  • Time Captured

  • Record Type

  • Monitored Object

  • Monitored Object Name

  • Site Name

  • Site ID

  • Periodic Time

  • Time Recorded

Service

  • Sap Id

  • Svc Id

  • Sdp Id

  • Queue Id

  • Final Count

Network

  • Forwarding Class

  • Lag Port

  • Port Id

  • Queue Id

Subscriber

  • Subscriber Id

  • Subscriber Profile Id

  • Sla Profile Id

AA

  • Group ID

  • Partition ID

Table 10-6: Accounting statistics counter definitions

Counter name

Definition

All Octets Offered

All Packets Offered

Offered packets enter a queue and are dropped or forwarded.

An octet value is a packet value expressed in Bytes.

Forwarding Class

The forwarding class of the traffic; this is a classification rather than a counter

High Octets Dropped

High Octets Offered

High Pkts Dropped

High Pkts Offered

High Priority Octets Dropped

High Priority Octets Offered

High Priority Pkts Dropped

High Priority Pkts Offered

High-priority packets for a traffic class are marked as in-profile on the ingress classification or based on the forwarding class of the packet. High-priority forwarding classes include nc, h1, ef, and h2. See the appropriate node’s QoS guide for more information about forwarding class scheduler mapping.

Offered packets enter a queue and are dropped or forwarded.

Dropped packets are not forwarded through a queue.

An octet value is a packet value expressed in Bytes.

In Profile Octets Dropped

In Profile Octets Forwarded

In Profile Packets Forwarded

In Profile Pkts Dropped

In Profile Pkts Forwarded

In-profile packets are received at a rate that is lower than the queue CIR.

Forwarded packets are sent to an egress queue.

Dropped packets are not forwarded through a queue.

An octet value is a packet value expressed in Bytes.

Long Duration Flows

Subscriber host application sessions that are longer than 180s in duration

Low Octets Dropped

Low Octets Offered

Low Pkts Dropped

Low Pkts Offered

Low Priority Octets Dropped

Low Priority Octets Offered

Low Priority Pkts Dropped

Low Priority Pkts Offered

Low-priority packets for a traffic class are marked as out-of-profile on the ingress classification or based on the forwarding class of the packet. Low-priority forwarding classes include l1, af, l2, and be. See the appropriate node’s QoS guide for more information about forwarding class scheduler mapping.

Offered packets enter a queue and are dropped or forwarded.

Dropped packets are not forwarded through a queue.

An octet value is a packet value expressed in Bytes.

Medium Duration Flows

Subscriber host application sessions that are 180s or less in duration

Net to Sub Active Flows

Net to Sub Admit Flows

Net to Sub Admit Octets

Net to Sub Admit Pkts

Net to Sub Deny Flows

Net to Sub Deny Octets

Net to Sub Deny Pkts

Net to Sub traffic flows from the network to a subscriber.

An active flow is a flow that is opened, closed, opened and closed, or continued during a collection interval.

Admit objects are objects that are forwarded.

Deny objects are objects that are not forwarded.

An octet value is a flow or packet value expressed in Bytes.

Num of Subs

The number of subscribers that have the specified flow type

Out Of Profile Octets Dropped

Out Of Profile Octets Forwarded

Out of Profile Packets Forwarded

Out Of Profile Pkts Dropped

Out Of Profile Pkts Forwarded

Out-of -profile packets are received at a rate that is higher than the queue CIR.

Forwarded packets are sent to an egress queue.

Dropped packets are not forwarded through a queue.

An octet value is a packet value expressed in Bytes.

Short Duration Flows

Subscriber host application sessions that are 30s or less in duration

Sub to Net Active Flows

Sub to Net Admit Flows

Sub to Net Admit Octets

Sub to Net Admit Pkts

Sub to Net Deny Flows

Sub to Net Deny Octets

Sub to Net Deny Pkts

Sub to Net traffic flows from a subscriber to the network.

An active flow is a flow that is opened, closed, opened and closed, or continued during a collection interval.

Admit objects are objects that are forwarded.

Deny objects are objects that are not forwarded.

An octet value is a flow or packet value expressed in Bytes.

Total Flow Duration

Aggregate duration, in seconds, of the completed flows at the time of collection.

Total Flows Completed

The number of completed flows in each direction

Total Octets Dropped

Total Octets Forwarded

Total Packets Dropped

Total Packets Forwarded

Offered packets enter a queue and are dropped or forwarded.

Forwarded packets are sent to an egress queue.

Dropped packets are not forwarded through a queue.

An octet value is a packet value expressed in Bytes.

Total Term Flows

The number of completed flows in each direction

Uncoloured Octets Offered

Uncoloured Packets Offered

Uncoloured Pkts Forwarded

Uncoloured Pkts Offered

Octets and packets can be modified or colored using color profiles. Color profiling adds the ability to selectively treat packets received on a SAP as in-profile or out-of-profile regardless of the queue forwarding rate. This allows a customer or access device to color a packet out-of-profile with the intention of keeping the in-profile bandwidth for higher-priority packets.

Offered packets enter a queue and are dropped or forwarded.

Forwarded packets are sent to an egress queue.

An octet value is a packet value expressed in Bytes.

Ingress Aggregate Pkts Offered

Ingress Aggregate Octets Offered

Ingress Aggregate Pkts Forwarded

Ingress Aggregate Octets Forwarded

Ingress Aggregate Pkts Dropped

Ingress Aggregate Octets Dropped

Egress Aggregate Pkts Forwarded

Egress Aggregate Octets Forwarded

Egress Aggregate Pkts Dropped

Egress Aggregate Octets Dropped

Aggregate number of high priority, low priority and uncolour packets offered by the ingress Pchip to Qchip.

Aggregate number of high priority, low priority and uncolour octets offered by the ingress Pchip to Qchip.

Aggregate number of in and out-of profile packets (rate above CIR) forwarded by the ingress Qchip.

Aggregate number of in and out-of profile octets (rate above CIR) forwarded by the ingress Qchip.

Aggregate number of high and low priority packets discarded by the ingress Qchip.

Aggregate number of high and low priority octets discarded by the ingress Qchip.

Aggregate number of in and out-of profile packets (rate above CIR) forwarded by the egress Qchip.

Aggregate number of in and out-of profile octets (rate above CIR) forwarded by the egress Qchip.

Aggregate number of in and out-of profile packets discarded by the egress Qchip.

Aggregate number of in and out-of profile octets discarded by the egress Qchip.

Stats Rate Mbps

Stats Rate Mbps Periodic

Stats Rate Packets

Stats Rate Packets Periodic

Rate Statistics in megabits per second.

Rate Statistics in megabits per second since the last period.

Rate Statistics in packets per second.

Rate Statistics in packets per second since the last period.