Design And Implementation Of A Distributed Ip Network Billing System

With the rapid development of network applications, good network management has already become the key of whether the network could operate normally and effectively. As one of the five major functions of network management, the accounting management is regarded as an indispensable and important component of a large-scale, medium or small-scale network. The traditional network flow accounting systems mostly gather flow in the borders of networks. While facing the complicated network environment and the increasing of network flow day by day, it is very difficult for this way to meet the demands of application. This paper proposes and realizes a distributed IP network accounting system which gathers network flow at each gathering point. At the same time, it realizes concentrated monitoring which controls and manages the running situations of flow gathering, analyzing and other parts in real-time way. It avoids the inconveniences brought by adopting distributed flow gathering and improves its manageability greatly. This system has been put into application and acquired good effect.