Re: Usage-Based Billing for DIA

[Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists () spacething org>]

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