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Network Accounting

The following types of network accounting are supported:

• Session Accounting

  Includes the collection of network statistics from the start of a session to its end for low-end (boundary) network sessions. Supported in NCP.

• Gateway Accounting

  Includes session statistics for SNI sessions. Supported in NCP.

Both types of network statistics are NCP statistics. The network statistics include the following items:

• Number of bytes sent during the session
• Number of bytes received during the session
• Number of PIUs (Path Information Units) sent during the session
• Number of PIUs received during the session
• Other session information

A portion of the network accounting status display is shown in the following diagram. This screen indicates whether network session accounting is turned on and the NCPs for which data is collected.

HOST=S008                        *** 17JAN2006.018 TUE 12:46:09 ***

                  *** NETWORK ACCOUNTING STATUS ***

(position cursor in front of NCP name to display more information)

NCP NAME  STATUS  LOGGING   START DATE/TIME  #SESS  BYTE THRES  PIU THRES
N13D5C0   NSA-ON    LOG    17JAN06 12:39:26      2        1000        100
          GWA-N/A

Network accounting records are written to the log or SMF. You can print the information in these accounting records in batch reports.

Dynamic Reconfiguration

For NCP, CA NetSpy updates network session statistics to reflect dynamic reconfiguration in the network.