HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview

• Display current settings
• Test communications to HP
• Set usage caps
• Specify hostnames and system identifiers for use in reporting usage to HP and for
your use when viewing usage information on the portal
• Specify which utility meter a server or partition should use to report its usage
information
How to Obtain
Pay per use is shipped with the HP-UX Foundation Operating Environment and is
customer configurable on all HP-UX servers. However, you must enable the Pay per
use system to communicate with a Utility Meter (a special system which must be set
up by HP). A single Utility Meter can support multiple Pay per use systems (currently
up to 100), so you do not need a Utility Meter system for every Pay per use system.
For Further Information
You can find comprehensive information about Pay per use and the Utility Meter in
the following documents:
• Utility Meter User Guide—See the latest version of this guide at http://docs.hp.com.
• HP Pay per use (PPU) User's Guide—See the latest version of this guide at http://
docs.hp.com.
• You can get additional information and access the sign-in page for the Pay per use
Portal at http://www.hp.com/go/payperuse.
Clustering (Multiple Servers, One Operating System)
Clustering technologies enable multiple servers to work in unison to present the
appearance of a single computing environment. Technically, each server is running its
own operating system, but they work together as if they were one.
Examples of clustering technologies include:
34 HP-UX Virtualization Technologies