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Billing Module

With the billing module you can create a bill, assign a quota to it and add ports to it. It then tracks the ports usage and shows you the usage in the bill, including any overage. Accounting by both total transferred data and 95th percentile is supported.

To enable and use the billing module you need to perform the following steps:

system/billing

lnms config:set enable_billing true

Edit /etc/cron.d/librenms and add the following:

*/5 * * * * librenms /opt/librenms/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
01  * * * * librenms /opt/librenms/billing-calculate.php >> /dev/null 2>&1

Go to Settings -> Poller -> Settings And for each poller, ensure Billing Enabled is selected.

Adding a bill

To create a new bill, from the LibreNMS menu select Ports -> Traffic Bills and select + Create Bill.

Enter the relevant details within the form, ensuring that you select at least one device and port.

95th Percentile Calculation

For 95th Percentile billing, the default behavior is to use the highest of the input or output 95th Percentile calculation.

To instead use the combined total of inout + output to derive the 95th percentile, This can be changed on a per bill basis by setting 95th Calculation to "Aggregate".

system/billing

lnms config:set billing.95th_default_agg true

This configuration setting is cosmetic and only changes the default selected option when adding a new bill.