Accounting, performance, and flow monitoring

Overview

The NFM-P provides a scalable platform for reliably collecting statistics from the managed NEs and the NFM-P system. The statistics are typically used for monitoring and troubleshooting an NFM-P network, and for SLA and billing functions.

Statistics collection must be enabled on the NFM-P before an OSS can retrieve them. Statistics collection can be performed on-demand or scheduled. See “Statistics collection in the NFM-P” in the NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide for more information.

The NFM-P can collect the following statistics:

To collect statistics, the NFM-P requires policies that specify the following: