8.14.01 HP Utility Meter User's Guide (June 2009)

For the list of currently supported PPU Agent platforms, refer to the specific PPU User's Guide at:
http://docs.hp.com/en/netsys.html#Utility Pricing Solutions
1.4 Software
Version 8.14.01 of the HP Utility Meter software is available as the following HP products:
• For Pay per use (PPU) installations: T2805AA
• For Utility Ready Storage (URS) installations: T5462A
PPU customers should install product T2805AA on the Utility Meter, and URS customers should install product
T5462A. Both products cannot be installed on a single Utility Meter at the same time. However, the PPU
product can meter Storage devices as well, and the URS product can meter servers under PPU. This means
there is no need for a second Utility Meter in case the customer has servers under a PPU contract and storage
arrays under a URS contract.
The Utility Meter software is compatible with HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3. The HP-UX Base Operating
Environment (BOE) or HP-UX Foundation Operating Environment (FOE) is adequate to run the Utility Meter
software application. The Utility Meter 8.14.01 software is supported on the following operating systems:
• HP-UX 11i v2 of December 2007 upgraded with patch to June 2008
• HP-UX 11i v3 of September 2008 and March 2009
The Utility Meter software is available from the following locations:
• The HP Software Depot Web site: http://software.hp.com (search for either T2805AA or T5462A)
• The HP-UX Application Software media (CD or DVD) that is sent to a customer when ordering either
HP Utility Meter software products.
The Utility Meter software is a selectable product in swinstall. (See the manpage swinstall(1M) for details
of the swinstall command.)
The Utility Meter software is different from the PPU Agent software or the WBEM provider software that is
installed on the partitions of a PPU server. The Utility Meter software, version 8.14.01, is compatible with
the PPU Agent software versions 7.0 or later. The PPU Agent software and the WBEM provider software
both use port 5989 for communication with the Utility Meter.
IMPORTANT: Although technically possible, HP does not recommend installing the Utility Meter software
on a server's partition that is under a PPU contract.
The following versions of HP-UX were tested with Utility Meter version 8.14.01:
• 11i v2 of June 2008
• 11i v3 of September 2008
• 11i v3 of March 2009
Linux has the following dependency:
▲ Support Pack 4.07 for RHEL5, RHEL4, RHEL3, SLES10, SLES9
For information about upgrading the Utility Meter software to version 8.14.01, see Section 2.15: “Upgrading
the Utility Meter Software to Version 8.14.01”.
1.4.1 Utility Meter Software Dependencies
The Utility Meter software is dependent on the following HP software:
• For Utility Ready Storage XP installations:
HP StorageWorks XP Command View Advanced Edition Command Line Interface (CLI) version 6.0 or
6.1 with its patches. The version of the CLI software on the meter must be equal to or lower than the
version of the Command View software installed on the XP Command View server(s).
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