8.15 HP Utility Meter User's Guide (January 2010)

A Site Preparation Form for Pay Per Use
Use the Utility Meter Site Preparation Form below to plan the configuration of the Utility Meter PPU installation.
Items of interest are:
• You can have up to 10 email addresses for the Meter Contact Email. HP recommends using an
email alias or an email distribution list as the contact address for your Utility Meter.
• Ensure that the network's DNS server(s) tables contain the IP address and hostname of the Utility Meter.
• If the data transport method is email, add the Utility Meter to the access list of the selected mail server.
The form below is for Utility Meter software version 8.15. It needs to be completed by the customer and
returned to their local HP contact before the PPU installation starts. Please use one form per Utility Meter.
AnswerQuestion
Networking Details
Domain name for the PPU Utility Meter
Static IP address for LAN interface on the Utility Meter
Network mask for IP address above
IP address for gateway to Internet
IP address of first DNS server for the Utility Meter
IP address of second DNS server (optional)
IP address of third DNS server (optional)
Local Time Zone for Utility Meter
IP address or hostname and domain name of NTP server
10 – 100 – 1000 –
HD – FD
Speed setting of port on company’s Ethernet switch connecting to
Utility Meter (put a circle around your choices)
Problem Reporting
Email address of person at the customer to be informed when URS
Usage Reports do not arrive at HP.
If multiple people needed to be informed, provide the name of a
distribution list in use at the customer.
PPU Report Transfer to HP (Only provide answers for one transport method below: email or https )
a.
b.
c. Yes / No
d. Yes / No
e. Yes / No
f. Yes / No
If transport of the PPU Usage Data is through email:
a. Hostname and domain name of Internet mail relay host
b. What is the masqueraded domain to create the “Return
address” for the emails?
c. Does the Internet mail relay specified in (a) accept to send
emails from the Utility Meter for username “root”?
d. Does your organization accept to apply hostname
masquerading for username “root”
e. Is the SMTP AUTH protocol implemented on the Internet mail
relay specified in (a)?
f. Is Transaction Layer Security (TLS) implemented on the Internet
mail relay specified in (a)?
a. Yes / No
b.
c.
d.
If the transport of PPU Usage Data is through https:
a. TCP port 443 has to be open in the firewall of the customer
for traffic from the PPU Utility Meter to HP. Is this port opened?
If a proxy server is used to relay data to the outside world:
b. hostname and domain name of the proxy server
c. proxy server port number
d. username/password
1
to cross the proxy server
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