The 7210 SAS devices maintain counters for meters within the system for the purpose of granular billing and accounting. Each meter maintains the following counters:
counters for packets and octets marked as in-profile by meter
counters for packets and octets marked as out-of-profile by meter
counters for packets and octets marked as dropped by meter
The counters available vary among the 7210 SAS platforms. Not all counters are supported on all platforms. Additionally, there are restrictions on the number of counters that can be used simultaneously with a single meter. Some platforms can only count octets or packets and others can count both packets and octets. Typically, each meter can maintain a subset of the counters. Users have the option to select the subset of the counter they want to use. See ‟Accounting Records” in the 7210 SAS-D, Dxp, K 2F1C2T, K 2F6C4T, K 3SFP+ 8C System Management Guide for information about counter (and corresponding accounting record) support available on each of the platforms.