Configuring an accounting policy

Before an accounting policy can be created a target log file must be created to collect the accounting records. The files are stored in system memory of compact flash (cf1:) in a compressed (tar) XML format and can be retrieved using FTP or SCP. See Configuring an event log and Configuring a file ID.

Accounting policies must be configured in the config>log context before they can be applied to a service SAP or service interface, or applied to a network port.

The default accounting policy statement cannot be applied to LDP nor RSVP statistics collection records.

An accounting policy must define a record type and collection interval. Only one record type can be configured per accounting policy.

policy can be defined as default. If statistics collection is enabled on an accounting object, and no accounting policy is applied, then the respective default accounting policy is used. If no default policy is defined, then no statistics are collected unless a specifically-defined accounting policy is applied.

Use the following CLI syntax to configure an accounting policy:

config>log> 
        accounting-policy acct-policy-id interval minutes   
            description description-string
            default
            record record-name 
            to file log-file-id
            no shutdown

A:ALA-12>config>log# info
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accounting-policy 5
description "This is a test accounting policy."
record service-ingress-packets
to file 3
exit
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A:ALA-12>config>log#