Controlling Resource Allocation

This section describes how to use accounting to control the number of resources a NetWare client can use. The following are items to consider when installing and using the accounting procedures.

Install the accounting program
Decide on the services you will charge for
Calculate the rates
Set up accounting balances for the users
View the balances

If you want to use the NetWare® 4.1/9000 accounting commands (see System Administration) rather than NetWare utilities to control resources used by NetWare clients, make all of your NetWare clients hybrid users (see "Managing the NetWare Services File System" in chapter 3).

Setting Up Accounting

Use this procedure from a Windows workstation to monitor NetWare server usage and charge users for server resources. You can do this by either using NetWare Administrator or NETADMIN and ATOTAL.

Setting Up Accounting Using NetWare Administrator

Prerequisites

A 386 or later workstation and NetWare Administrator
The Supervisor right to the parent directory

Procedure

From the Windows Program Manager, click on the "NetWare Administrator" icon or run the nwadmin.exe. from the "File Manager."
Select the Server object you want to set up accounting for.
From the "NetWare Administrator" menu bar, choose "Object."
From the "Object" pull-down menu, choose "Details."
Choose "Accounting" from the bottom of the dialog box.
Confirm that you want to install accounting on this server.
Accounting page buttons appear on the right side of the dialog box with the other page buttons.
Use the accounting buttons to edit the accounting pages.
Choose "OK."

Setting Up Accounting Using NETADMIN

Prerequisites

A workstation running DOS 3.30 or later and NETADMIN
A minimum of 512 KB of memory available on the workstation
The Supervisor right to the parent directory

Procedure

Run the nwadmin.exe from the "File Manaager" or at the DOS prompt, type
NETADMIN <Enter>
From the "NetAdmin Options" menu, select "Manage Objects."
Select the Server object for which you want to set up accounting for and press <F10>.
From the "Actions for NetWare Server" menu, select "View or Edit Properties of this Object" and press <Enter>.
From the "View or Edit Server" menu, select "Accounting" and press <Enter>.
From the "Install Accounting?" prompt, select "Yes" and press <Enter>.
From the "Accounting Options" screen, select "Accounting Servers" and press <Enter>.
Press <Insert>.
Select "NetWare Server" from the list of possible servers and press <Enter>.
Enter the name of the server or press <Insert> and select a server from the list.
Press <Esc> to return to the "Accounting Options" menu.
Choose the options you want to set up.
Press <F1> if you need help with any of the options.
To exit NETADMIN, press <Alt>+<F10>.

Calculating Charge Rates for Accounting

Charge rates for using server resources are specified as multipliers and divisors. To set the charge amount to "No Charge," enter 0 as the multiplier. Use the following formula to calculate a charge rate:

Figure 7-4 Title not available (Calculating Charge Rates for Accounting)

For example, if you want to charge $200 per month for server disk storage, and there are usually 100,000 blocks used each month on your hard drive

20,000 would be the multiplier ($200 in cents)
100,000 would be the divisor (disk block usage per month)
Therefore, users would be charged two-tenths of one cent per disk block used.
Figure 7-5 Title not available (Calculating Charge Rates for Accounting)

Viewing Accounting Totals

The ATOTAL utility provides a total for the accounting services used on your network. ATOTAL compiles information from the system accounting records and lists the following:

Total connect time in minutes
Total service requests
Total blocks read
Total blocks written
Total disk storage in blocks per day

Procedure

Change to the SYS:SYSTEM directory.
To view daily and weekly totals for accounting services, type
ATOTAL <Enter>
To redirect ATOTAL data to a file, type
ATOTAL > filename <Enter>

Controlling Resource Allocation

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Setting Up Accounting

Setting Up Accounting Using NetWare Administrator

Setting Up Accounting Using NETADMIN

Calculating Charge Rates for Accounting

Viewing Accounting Totals