Usage-Based Billing for DIA
Sam Stickland
sam_mailinglists at spacething.org
Mon Mar 9 09:30:14 UTC 2009
Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Rodriguez, Mauricio wrote:
>
>> Looking at possibilities for an implementation of usage-based
>> billing, it seems that the same techniques and tools always come up.
>> I'm looking for some feedback from the list on experiences with these
>> tools and techniques as well as alternatives that may not be listed
>> here.
>>
>> +Techniques
>> --Flow data (Netflow, SFlow, etc) analysis to
>> determine 95th percentile traffic levels
>> --SNMP polling of interface counters to determine 95th
>> percentile traffic levels
>
>
> I need to look into this in the near future as well. The problems I'm
> aware of are:
>
> 1) we have customers on policed ports, and the interface snmp counters
> count packets before service-policy. It doesn't seem right to bill
> for packets we dropped :)...so this isn't useful data for billing
> purposes.
>
Torrus (www.torrus.org) can use the Cisco MIBs to graph pre and
post-policy packets.
http://www.torrus.org/plugins/tp-cisco-cbqos.pod.html
Sam
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