Setting Up a Flow Configuration Job

Flowmeter is a high frequency bandwidth utilization meter that is available on the following Accedian products:

• Skylight element: FSX
• Skylight element: FS 1G
• Skylight element: FS 10G
• Skylight sensor: control

The Flow configuration step can be used to set up flowmeters on all of these products.

Here are some points that you should be aware of when setting up a configuration step for flowmeter on a Skylight sensor: control:

• A flowmeter is called a port rule. A flowmeter instance is considered a rule and is associated with a port connected to a remote device (Skylight sensor: module or Skylight sensor: SFP compute module).
• Four flowmeters (port rules) can be associated with a port receiving incoming traffic.
• A flowmeter does not have a name. Since a flowmeter is a rule associated with a port, its unique identifier is a port rule number (a value from 1 to 4).

Here are some points that you should be aware of when setting up a configuration step for flowmeter on FS and FSX Skylight elements:

• A flowmeter instance is called a "flow".
• Flow name is the unique identifier for a flow.
• Multiple flows can be associated with a port receiving incoming traffic.
• A metering action can be applied to a flow.

To set up a Flow configuration job

1. Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs.

2. Set all common configuration job settings, as described in "Creating Configuration Jobs in GUI Mode" and "Creating Configuration Jobs Using Data Sets".

3. Select Flow in the left pane. The Flow tab is displayed.
   

4. Complete all fields in the Flow tab as required. For more information on parameters, see the table below.

5. Click Apply, then click Close.

6. Click the Refresh button to refresh the user interface.

Flow tab (Commission ▶ Jobs)

Flow configuration