Chapter 1 Traffic Accounting Configuration; Introduction To Traffic Accounting; Related Concepts Of Traffic Accounting - H3C S7500 Series Operation Manual

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Operation Manual – Traffic Accounting

H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches

Chapter 1 Traffic Accounting Configuration

The traffic accounting card mentioned in this chapter refers to LS81VSNP line

processing unit (LPU).

When configuring traffic accounting, go to these sections for information you are

interested in:

Configuring Traffic Accounting

Displaying Traffic Accounting

Traffic Accounting Configuration Example

1.1 Introduction to Traffic Accounting

Some accounting servers, such as CAMS, can perform time-based or traffic-based

accounting for successfully authenticated 802.1x users. Traffic accounting enables the

switch where users are authenticated to measure the traffic generated when the users

are online and send traffic measurement results to the accounting server to charge the

online users.

Traffic group: a mechanism used to classify destination networks by accounting

attributes. The accounting attributes of a traffic group include whether to charge

and the charge rate.

Traffic group accounting address: a network IP address configured for a traffic

group. You can configure some network addresses for a traffic group, and then

traffic generated for accessing these addresses will be measured.

Traffic collection card: an interface card configured to perform traffic collection. A

traffic collection card sends all the traffic passing through it to the traffic accounting

Traffic accounting card: the card that performs traffic analysis, calculation and

Traffic collection: the process of sending the traffic passing through the traffic

collection card to the traffic accounting card.

Chapter 1 Traffic Accounting Configuration

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