Burst Billing Report

Available in pre-release opReports 3.5.0.
Not available in opReports 3.5 ( the official release as at 20 December 2021 ).

This report displays 95th percentile InDataVolume and OutDataVolume in Mbps for node interfaces specified in a Burst Billing Customer List.
This report requires input from a Burst Billing Customer List.

This report is not available from opReports GUI → Views → On-Demand Reports → Create New Report.

Burst Billing Customer List

In the GUI you'd select "from Burst Billing Customer List File (Upload)" and upload the file of choice. For opreports-cli you use burst_billing_customer_list=<path to listfile>, and for a scheduled report you would set the property burst_billing_customer_list with the value being the path to the list file.

The Burst Billing Customer List can only be in csv format:

• Each entry must start with the node name, folllowed by an interface, a client number, contracted upstream (mbps) and contracted downstream (mbps):

  Burst Billing Customer List in csv format

  ASGARD,FastEthernet0/0,809-101-6782,5,45
  ASGARD,2,809-101-6782,60,5
  Huawei_AR2240,5,12345678,20,200
  Huawei_AR2240,GigabitEthernet0/0/1.243,12345679,100,10
  Teldat_ATLAS60,ethernet0/0.3839,12345670,20,20
  TeldatM1,10,12345671,10,10

  
  Interfaces can be identified by the numeric SNMP interface index, or by the SNMP ifDescr property.

opCommon Configuration settings

/path/to/omkj/conf/opCommon.nmis has the following specific configuration settings for this report:

'opreports' =>
{
  ...
  'burst_billing_IDUniqueTransactionDateTime_format' => '',
  'burst_billing_IDUniqueTransactionLineNumber_format' => '',
  'burst_billing_csv_display_heading_row' => 1,
  ...
}

Examples of Use:

To get the Burst Billing Report to generate the column IDUniqueTransaction in a different format
once this version of opReports is installed,
the following customisation can be made to the configuration file /path/to/omk/conf/opCommon.nmis:

• Execute these one-line commands:
  

  sudo /usr/local/omk/bin/patch_config.exe -b /usr/local/omk/conf/opCommon.nmis /opreports/burst_billing_IDUniqueTransactionDateTime_format='NMIS_%Y%m%d%H_'
  sudo /usr/local/omk/bin/patch_config.exe /usr/local/omk/conf/opCommon.nmis /opreports/burst_billing_IDUniqueTransactionLineNumber_format='%.4d'

To get the Burst Billing Report not to write headings to the first row of the csv file output for the report:

• execute this one-line command:

  sudo /usr/local/omk/bin/patch_config.exe /usr/local/omk/conf/opCommon.nmis /opreports/burst_billing_csv_display_heading_row=0

Layout Customisation

The layout of this report can be customised from opReports GUI → Views → Report Schedules → Create New → Report → Type=Burst Billing Report → Layout tab: