Retrieve Host Accounting Data

After host data has collected for a sufficient amount of time, you can view the data on the screen and/or save it into a file that can be imported into another program for additional calculations (such as totaling and averaging) and billing. You have a lot of flexibility when retrieving host data. You can display host data for all hosts, for a certain IP address, a subnet, or a host list. In addition, you specify the period for which you want to retrieve data — a range of dates or relative dates (for example, -7 for 7 days ago).

Note: Before you can retrieve host accounting data, you need to enable the feature.

1. Access the command-line interface.

2. Use the host accounting retrieve command to display the host data. To save the data in a comma-separated value (.CSV) file, use the into <file> parameter.

3. Use the ftpput command to FTP the .CSV file to an FTP server.

4. Import the .CSV file into a third-party application (such as Microsoft Excel).