ADSM-L

Re: billing for adsm use

2000-05-12 10:50:34
Subject: Re: billing for adsm use
From: Doug Thorneycroft <dthorneycroft AT LACSD DOT ORG>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 07:50:34 -0700
Go to the archives and search for billing.  There are a lot of post on this
subject:
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On Thursday, May 11, 2000 3:11 PM, Steve Bennett
[SMTP:steve_bennett AT ADMIN.STATE.AK DOT US] wrote:
> I have been pondering methods of billing *SM usage back to our
> customers. Our current method has some holes that I would like to close
> or possibly completely rethink our methodology. Here goes.
>
> We currently have two ADSM servers V3.1.2.50 running on AIX 4.2.1
> RSC/6000 boxes. There are about 60 clients including Win NT, Win 95,
> Netware, AIX, Solaris, Linux, etc. All are at ADSM V3.1 or higher.
>
> We have the need to bill the customers for their part of total *SM
> usage. Currently we do that by using the output of a
> sql select from the occupancy table which looks a lot like output of "q
> occupancy". Each customers percent of *SM storage is calculated and
> billed as their part of total *SM cost. This works well in most cases
> but there are a few that present more challenges.
>
> For instance, let's say a AIX or Win NT client is only used by one
> customer group. In that case all backup and archive storage can billed
> to that customer group because the occupancy data is reported by client.
> But, when the client is shared by several customers it becomes more
> difficult. We need go down to the file system level within the client
> and total each customers usage. This works fine for backup data.
>
> Archive data can be a different story depending upon the client
> platform. AIX clients archive data is reported down to the file system
> level but in the case of Win NT it is only reported down to the volume
> level. When customers share a volume the archive total is the sum of
> those two customers usage. As far as I can tell, there is no way to get
> a more granular accounting of storage.
>
> I even went so far as to run a sql select from the contents table which
> gives does give file sizes. Those file sizes could be totaled to get
> usage. The only problem is that if the file is part of an aggregate, the
> file size reported is the size of the aggregate, not the size of the
> file within the aggregate. Why they did that I'll likely never know.
>
> So, what do you all do out there in *SM land? Do you use the *SM
> accounting data which reports data transmitted and ignore how much *SM
> storage is being used? Some combination of both numbers?
>
> Does TSM V3.7 provide more options for reporting storage use? We will
> need to upgrade before year end but haven't yet decided wether the
> server will still be AIX or some other platform.
>
> Inquiring minds want to know!
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> Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
> State of Alaska, Information Technology Group, Technical Services
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