[comp.os.vms] VMS image accounting

EBIBISI@UTMEM1.BITNET (ED BIBISI) (07/10/88)

Hi all,

We have an accounting problem on our cluster that we are not sure of how
to handle. On our campus we are politically disposed to give $free$ access
to DEC's All-In-One (A1) ofice automation product to certain groups,
but we must $charge$ these groups for any other computer activities.

We would like to have each user to have only one username and somehow
be able to discern between the charges that the user accumulates between
A1 and other computing acvities.

We have looked at many VMS accounting packages and none of them, according
to my system manager, will allow "image accounting".  She tells me that
you can "switch projects", but still VMS will not allow one to bill for
specific executable images.

We are currently using JEJAC's ARSAP accounting package.  My system manager
has adapted it to do 90% of my required billing.

Does anyone have any idea of how to handle this A1 "image accounting"?

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Thanks,

Ed Bibisi
Director, Telecommunication Systems
University of Tennessee, Memphis
Memphis, TN 38163
(901) 528-5848