The accounting system of BS2000 is responsible for logging and storing data for user accounting and operations accounting.
The data acquired for user accounting enables the data center to bill users for resources and services received. The information collected for operations accounting provides an uninterrupted survey of the utilization and availability of the entire server system.
The accounting routine writes the collected data in the form of different types of accounting records to a file especially provided for that purpose. This accounting file is then further evaluated using special programs.
At the end of the chapter there is an overview of all the BS2000 accounting records (for a detailed description of the accounting records and their structure please refer to the “Accounting Records” manual [1]).