usage-reporting billing-period

Configures the CNA link with the service provider’s billing cycle.

usage billing-period <day> [ <hour> ]
 
no usage billing-period
 

• day--day of month on which billing cycle begins; range: 01 through 31
• hour--hour of day when cycle begins; range 00 through 23

Must be in link configuration mode (config-engine-link), which requires privileged-level access.

Use once per link.

day--01

hour--00 (midnight)

Use the usage-reporting billing-period command to change the beginning of a service provider’s billing cycle from its default of day 01, hour 00 (midnight before the first day of the month).

The billing cycle is the period used to generate billing reports from link-usage data obtained by polling your edge routers. See the command polling usage on.

The usage-reporting billing-period command is one of several related usage parameter commands:

• usage-reporting cost
• usage-reporting percentile
• usage-reporting formula

Use the no form of the command to delete the billing period from the link configuration block.