Accounting Options Overview

An accounting profile represents common characteristics of collected accounting data, including the following:

• Collection interval
• File to contain accounting data
• Specific fields and counter names on which to collect statistics

You can configure multiple accounting profiles, as described in Table 73.

Table 73: Types of Accounting Profiles

Type of Profile	Description
Interface profile	Collects the specified error and statistic information.
Filter profile	Collects the byte and packet counts for the counter names specified in the filter profile.
Routing Engine profile	Collects selected Routing Engine statistics and logs them to a specified file.
Class usage profile	Collects class usage statistics and logs them to a specified file.