L3 metering

The L3 metering extension enables administrators to assign labels to networks to facilitate the metering of the traffic traversing a virtual router. A metering label contains metering rules and is associated with a tenant. The following Neutron commands are specific to the L3 metering extension:

  • meter-label-create
  • meter-label-delete
  • meter-label-list
  • meter-label-rule-create
  • meter-label-rule-delete
  • meter-label-rule-list
  • meter-label-rule-show
  • meter-label-show

The Neutron metering agent can be installed on the node hosting the Neutron router with the following command:

# apt-get install neutron-metering-agent

The configuration file can be found at /etc/neutron/metering-agent.ini. The configuration and use of the Neutron metering agent is outside ...

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