Technical data

9
Charging Users for Printer Resources
This chapter describes the accounting information that is supplied to the
OpenVMS accounting files by the DECprint Supervisor software.
The OpenVMS Accounting Utility reads information about the use of system
resources from the file SYS$MANAGER:ACCOUNTING.DAT. The DECprint
Supervisor software records information in this file about printer usage. For
information about the OpenVMS Accounting Utility, see the OpenVMS System
Manager’s Reference Manual.
9.1 Accounting Information Supplied by the DECprint
Supervisor Software
The print symbiont supplies the following information in the accounting file for
each print job:
• Pages printed -
This is the actual number of sheets printed. When you are using the
NUMBER_UP parameter to print multiple pages on a sheet, this field
records the number of sheets of paper printed, not the number of logical
pages printed. The number of sheets printed includes the separation (flag,
trailer, and burst) pages. When the print job is deleted by the user or
system operator, this information reflects the number of pages printed
before the job was terminated.
• Gets from source -
This is the number of RMS ‘‘gets’’ from all files in the print job (records
read).
• QIO puts
This is the number of QIO ‘‘writes’’ to the printer per job.
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