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BillingBilling is the latest feature introduced in NetFlow Analyzer. This feature helps keep a tab on resource usage and takes the bandwidth monitoring one step ahead - Accounting. It makes easy to understand the reports in terms of cost incurred. Internally, organizations can use this feature for department-wise billing.Also Internet Service Providers can use this to automatically generate reports for their customers. Operations on BillingBilling can be accessed through "Billing" in "Admin Operations"
Creating a Bill PlanA bill plan can be created on basis of either one of the following:
1. Speed 2. Volume
The "Bill Plan List" tab lets you create a new bill plan. To create a bill plan, click on the "Add Plan" tab. The Fields and their description are given below.
Enter Billing Details
* - optional fields. Other fields are mandatory.
Associated To
This has the list of Routers/interfaces and IP groups. You can select the interfaces and/or the IP groups that is associated with this plan.
Email ID To Send Reports
Enter the mail ID/IDs to which the generated Bill report needs to be sent. Multiple mail IDs should be separated by comma ","
Example for the 95th Percentile calculation:
IN & OUT MERGE: inbound = [0.139 0.653 0.201 0.116 0.084 0.032 0.047 0.185 0.198 0.203 0.276 0.370 0.971 0.233 0.218 0.182 0.169 0.126 0.131 0.157] outbound = [1.347 1.435 1.229 0.523 0.438 0.231 0.347 0.689 0.940 1.248 1.385 1.427 3.988 1.265 1.221 1.013 0.992 0.874 0.896 1.002]
Inbound and Outbound merge = [0.139 0.653 0.201 0.116 0.084 0.032 0.047 0.185 0.198 0.203 0.276 0.370 0.971 0.233 0.218 0.182 0.169 0.126 0.131 0.157 1.347 1.435 1.229 0.523 0.438 0.231 0.347 0.689 0.940 1.248 1.385 1.427 3.988 1.265 1.221 1.013 0.992 0.874 0.896 1.002]
IN & OUT SEPERATE: inbound = [0.139 0.653 0.201 0.116 0.084 0.032 0.047 0.185 0.198 0.203 0.276 0.370 0.971 0.233 0.218 0.182 0.169 0.126 0.131 0.157] After sorting, we obtain: sorted_in = [0.971 0.653 0.370 0.276 0.233 0.218 0.203 0.201 0.198 0.185 0.182 0.169 0.157 0.139 0.131 0.126 0.116 0.084 0.047 0.032] Each sample set contains 20 samples--5% of 20 is 1, so discarding the top 5% means we must discard the top sample from each data set. We are now left with: remaining_in = [0.653 0.370 0.276 0.233 0.218 0.203 0.201 0.198 0.185 0.182 0.169 0.157 0.139 0.131 0.126 0.116 0.084 0.047 0.032] The highest sample from each remaining data set is the 95th percentile value for the originating set. So, for each set, above, we obtain the following values: 95th_in = 0.653 Mbps The higher of the two computed 95th percentile values becomes the final 95th percentile value used for billing: 95th percentile = 1.435 Mbps
The "Bill Plan List" tab lets you create a new bill plan. To create a bill plan, click on the "Add Plan" tab. The Fields and their description are given below.
Enter Billing Details
* - optional fields. Other fields are mandatory.
Associated To
This has the list of Routers/interfaces and IP groups. You can select the interfaces and/or the IP groups that is associated with this plan.
Email ID To Send Reports
Enter the mail ID/IDs to which the generated Bill report needs to be sent. Multiple mail IDs should be separated by comma ",".Each plan may have the default mail id to which the bill reports will be cced .You can also add separate mail id for each associated device.Add/edit the custom mail id by click on the On-Demand BillingBills can be generated on demand. By clicking on "OnDemand" for a particular bill plan in the bill plan list, a bill can be generated for the time period from the beginning of the billing cycle to the current date. Editing Bill PlanBill plans can be edited by clicking Bill plans list and editing any particular bill as the need may be.
Adding an interface/IP group
An interface/IP group can be added during any point of the billing cycle. The bill will be generated for this interface/IP group during the mentioned billing date for the billing plan.
Removing an interface/IP group
When an Intereface/IP group is removed from a bill plan, the bill for that interface is generated at the same instant.
Other billing parameters
Editing base speed / volume, base cost, additional speed / volume, additional cost, billing calculation (95th Percentile / Data transfer) will take effect only from the next billing cycle. Editing email ID and threshold alerting will take effect at the same time.
Deleting Bill PlanDeleting a bill plan will lead to deletions of all the reports generated by the particular bill plan.
ReportsGenerated Reports can be viewed by clicking the "Report" tab on top.
Available plans
You can view all the plans or any one plan by selecting the suitable option from the drop-down box. By default the "report" page shows only the recent report of all the bill plans. If you want to view all the generated reports for a particular bill plan, select the bill plan from the drop-down box, next to "available plans". The reports are arranged with the most recent report on top.
Show details
By clicking on "show details" a pop up window opens, wherein you can view a speed-time graph.This shows all the bills generated for the particular interface.The report in can be generated in PDF format by clicking on "PDF" and you can view the data at 5 minutes interval by clicking on the "Data points" |
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