NPM Network Session Accounting

NPM Network Session Accounting collects connect time and traffic statistics for terminal sessions.
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This information is gathered from the NCP NPALU (Network Performance Analysis Logical Unit). NPM Network Session Accounting differs from NPM Network Collection (also derived from the NPALU) in the following major respects:
  • Network session accounting identifies each session's partners, that is, PLU and SLU.
  • Network session traffic statistics are for LU sessions and never include line overhead, such as polling and retransmissions.
NPM writes network session accounting data to the SMF type 28 record, subtypes '50'X, '51'X, and '52'X, which
MICS
processes. It is your responsibility to archive SMF data regularly for input to
MICS DAILY
update process. It you are running VM NPM, then it is also your responsibility to transport the VM SMF-equivalent type 28 records to your
MICS
MVS host.