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NAME

       ppu - Pay per use software for HP-UX

DESCRIPTION

       Pay per use (PPU) is a program under which customers pay only for computing capacity that they use.  The PPU software provides services for
       metering resource utilization on supported HP systems.  Depending on the type of contract a PPU system is under, utilization can be  either
       of  the	actual percentage utilization of each core, or a count of the number of active cores in the system.  The PPU software communicates
       with a utility meter to report utilization data.  The utility meter in turn transmits the utilization data to HP for proper billing.

       PPU systems must be configured to use a utility meter.  Utility meter configuration is accomplished using the command (see ppuconfig(1M)).

       The data that is sent to HP is aggregated and sent to billing; it is also posted on the Utility Pricing Solutions  portal  for  viewing	at
       http://www.hp.com/go/payperuse.

       PPU  can  be run in an HP Integrity Virtual Machines environment (HPVM).  In this case, the usage information for billing purposes is still
       the overall usage for the VM Host.  However, you can examine the usage report at the portal to see a detailed breakdown of  the	usage  for
       each virtual machine (also called a "guest").

       In  an HPVM environment, PPU needs to be installed and configured only on the VM Host, not on the guests.  The command will report an error
       if invoked on a VM guest.

       For more information see the Pay per use User's Guide located at /usr/share/doc/PayPerUseUserGuide.pdf.

SEE ALSO

       ppud(1M), ppuconfig(1M)

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