The Chargeback Facility
This new Digitask-developed application allocates the business costs of VMS Hosts, Printers, and Disk Devices across Business Activities, Departments and Users. It is a reporting tool that provides a consolidated view of company-wide host usage patterns and associated costs. Upper management has easy access to both summary and detailed usage. They can view summary usage and accounting data for any or all departments and drill-down to view activity of individual users.
- Usage is automatically and continually tracked and accounted for.
- Tracks and reports cpu usage, pages printed, volumes mounted, files stored and disk blocks used. All data is tagged for username, host, and account. On each node accounts are assigned to applications and businesses.
- Monitors each disk’s usage, and issues alarms if any disk becomes filled beyond its configured threshold.
- Can be configured to optimize the data collection process, allowing you to determine the best configuration to meet your needs, while minimizing the impact on your network.
The uniqueness of this application is in the presentation and consolidation of accounting data from disparate hosts and applications. Accounting or IT managers can gather node and user activity information. The data is formatted into reports as global or as local as needed when reviewing usage. Managers can spot abnormal usage patterns and associated costs quickly and easily. While accounting is the primary functionality, other benefits include:
- Compute and assess the cost of system services
- Enable billing or charge-back for system services
- Monitor and report suspect system activity
- Detect and report dangerously filled disks before critical applications fail
- Identify and report problems related to quality of service.
- Identify and report accounts/applications that are overusing system resources
