Resource Management

System Resource Accounting Information

The SRM software provides the ability to generate accounting data based on resource usage. This is made available by the accumulation of resource information in the lnode tree. Although the SRM software does not provide resource accounting, it does provide the data and data extraction tools that can be used to develop a system to generate accounting (or billing) information.

Billing Issues

You must decide which lnodes are to be billed for resource usage. For example, you may only be concerned with billing entire departments, so they may only want to bill the group headers of the topmost groups, whose accrued usage will include all the accrued usage of the lnodes at lower levels within their departments. ...