Sflow billing or usage calculation software

Sat Apr 13 21:55:20 UTC 2019

Tony,

You might find the following article useful in identifying features to
consider when evaluating sFlow analyzers:
https://blog.sflow.com/2009/05/choosing-sflow-analyzer.html

The following white paper discusses accuracy of packet sampling for usage
accounting:
https://inmon.com/pdf/sFlowBilling.pdf

Peter

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 2:07 PM Tony C <tonycane at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I am looking for Sflow analytical software that can tell me automatically
> over say a period of 24 hours (or any time period I select) the average
> mbit of data consumed for any IP address within our entire AS.
>
> (Without configuring a rule or billing group for each IP address or
> customer within our network)
>
> The purpose is to help quickly work out IP addressees which are using more
> bandwidth (in or out) than what we consider to be acceptable usage.
>
> For example, I would like to review a report or be automatically alerted
> to any IP address using more than an average of 50mbit within the past 24
> hour plus have the capability to review data say over a month.
>
> Any names of software of suggestions would be great which I can
> investigate, happy to look at both commercial software and open source or
> if you have a Sflow billing solution for data consumption which is simple
> and easy to use please let me know
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>
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