Counters

There are 6 so called "application counters" which function as numeral representation of goods consumed by customer, namely:

  • Application Counter (KB)
  • Application Counter (MB-hours)
  • Application Counter (MHz)
  • Application Counter (MHz-hours)
  • Application Counter (unit)
  • Application Counter (unit-hours)

They are declared in application metadata (schemas), and have OA resources created for them.

The difference between "hours" and "-hours" resources is that the latter is additive.

Typical examples:

  • Counter (unit) - non-additive - diskspace
  • Counter (unit-hour) additive - traffic, MHz.

Note: when configuring Resources in PBA, that are linked to OA RT, BA ignores its own "additive" flag, and uses OA's. This ultimately affects the way customer would be billed for the resource. If traffic would be set to "Application Counter (KB)" - the customer would receive bigger and bigger orders.

Resource synchronization task

There is a periodic task Synchronize resource usage for instances of APS applications that effectively goes through APS2.0 endpoints and calls retrieve() function. In reply the endpoint goes ahead and updates the resource usage in OA. The detailed explanation of how the retrieve() function may function is available at docs at appstandard.

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