Introduction
IP
accounting software fetches IP accounting data from your
Cisco Network Devices like routers and switches. Using this
software network administrator can see the number of bytes and
packets switched through the Cisco IOS software on a source
and destination IP address basis. To maintain accurate
accounting totals, the software maintains two accounting
databases: an active and a checkpointed database.
In addition to IP-Accounting Table fetching, IPAccounting
also facilitates Network Administrator watch status of
interfaces belongs to a Switch/Router.
IPAccounting utility is
based on SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) accepted
across industry for management of computer networks. It
supports SNMP v1 and SNMP v2c.
Applications of
IPAccounting
IPAccounting can be a use for different applications.
1. Fetching IP-Accounting table data from Cisco Switch/Router.
2. Monitoring interface status (up/down) .
Features
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Fetches live IP-Accounting table. |
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Provide additional facility getting interfaces with their
on/off status. |
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Allow monitoring of multiple switches. |
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Support SNMP version 1 and version 2c. |
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Provide facility of sorting IP-Accounting
table on bytes/packets. |
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Provide facility of resolving IP-Address to
their corresponding DNS Name by reverse DNS lookup. |
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IP-Accounting table can be exported to
plain text format or CVS format which can be easily
exported to database systems like Oracle/MS SQL Server/MS
Access etc. |
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Provide auto refresh facility of
IP-Accounting table. |
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