diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 1903db160877322fb5af81eacf47959580bf9d1e..76e612caf34c1b7edea9aee76e6335432cac0324 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -203,12 +203,13 @@ execution of the command "sudo modprobe msr".
 .TP
 \fBAcctGatherInfinibandType\fR
 Identifies the plugin to be used for infiniband network traffic accounting.
-The plugin is activated only when profiling on hdf5 files is activated and
-the user asks for network data collection for jobs through \-\-profile=Network
-(or =All). The collection of network traffic data takes place on node level,
+The jobacct_gather plugin and slurmd daemon call this plugin to collect
+network traffic data for jobs and nodes.
+The collection of network traffic data takes place on the node level,
 hence only in case of exclusive job allocation the collected values will
-reflect the jobs real traffic. All network traffic data are logged on hdf5 files
-per job on each node. No storage on the Slurm database takes place.
+reflect the job's real traffic. In case of node sharing between jobs the reported
+network traffic per job (through sstat or sacct) will not reflect the real
+network traffic by the jobs.
 
 Configurable values at present are:
 .RS
@@ -219,17 +220,21 @@ No infiniband network data are collected.
 \fBacct_gather_infiniband/ofed\fR
 Infiniband network traffic data are collected from the hardware monitoring
 counters of Infiniband devices through the OFED library.
+In order to account for per job network traffic, add the "ic/ofed" TRES to
+\fIAccountingStorageTRES\fR.
 .RE
 
 .TP
 \fBAcctGatherFilesystemType\fR
 Identifies the plugin to be used for filesystem traffic accounting.
-The plugin is activated only when profiling on hdf5 files is activated and
-the user asks for filesystem data collection for jobs through \-\-profile=Lustre
-(or =All). The collection of filesystem traffic data takes place on node level,
+The jobacct_gather plugin and slurmd daemon call this plugin to collect
+filesystem traffic data for jobs and nodes.
+The collection of filesystem traffic data takes place on the node level,
 hence only in case of exclusive job allocation the collected values will
-reflect the jobs real traffic. All filesystem traffic data are logged on hdf5 files
-per job on each node. No storage on the Slurm database takes place.
+reflect the job's real traffic. In case of node sharing between jobs the reported
+filesystem traffic per job (through sstat or sacct) will not reflect the real
+filesystem traffic by the jobs.
+
 
 Configurable values at present are:
 .RS
@@ -240,6 +245,8 @@ No filesystem data are collected.
 \fBacct_gather_filesystem/lustre\fR
 Lustre filesystem traffic data are collected from the counters found in
 /proc/fs/lustre/.
+In order to account for per job lustre traffic, add the "disk/lustre" TRES to
+\fIAccountingStorageTRES\fR.
 .RE
 
 .TP