[flow-tools] 95th percentile billing information

[Horatio B. Bogbindero]

Surlignage William Groh <william@miamiconsultant.net>:

> By 95th percentile billing, at the lowest levels, I mean taking the amount
> of time you are billing for (a month usually) and dividing it into time 
> slices (usually 5 minutes) then taking 5% of those timeslices with the 
highest
> bandwidth usage and discarding them, the highest remaining peak traffic
> level is the bandwidth rate used to bill.
> 
what is the rationale for discarding the highest 5% of the timeslices? why
use 5 min timeslices?

> There are a couple of derivatives, but this is a good idea of the concept.
>
interesting. of course, there is nothing instantly available right now. our 
billing system here using the whole amount with no discards. 

right now i have no solution at hand. but, i will think about it and maybe 
i can get something up. 

thanks.

> 
> "Horatio B. Bogbindero" wrote:
> 
> > Surlignage William Groh <william@miamiconsultant.net>:
> >
> > > I see that you can generate GB per month information as well as 
average
> > > Mbps from flow-stat, does anybody know of a way of generating 95th
> > > percentile billing information using flow-tools.
> > >
> > > I have worked with tools like http://freshmeat.net/projects/flavio/ 
but
> > > there are some limitations.
> > >
> > i am not familiar with that term 95th billing percentile. maybe if you
> > explain it there maybe a solution. or i could possibly have one already.
> >
> > good luck!
> >

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