Utility Pricing Solutions Web Portal | HP Pay per use (PPU) specs

1.10 Utility Pricing Solutions Web Portal

HP maintains a public Web portal that displays the usage data for UPS computing resources under a PPU or URS contract. The Utility Pricing Solutions (UPS) Web portal is located at: http://www.hp.com/go/ payperuse. Access to the portal is controlled by a username/password. All users of the portal must first register for a private account, which is identified by their email address (username). Registration to the portal is free. The UPS Web portal provides usage information for the following UPS programs:

•Instant Capacity (iCAP)

•Pay per use (PPU)

•Utility Ready Storage (URS)

Customers and HP people already registered for access to the iCAP portal can reuse their logon information to access PPU and URS information. The account username on the UPS Web portal must be a valid email account because a one-time password is sent to this email address for initial access to the portal . The user is forced to change the password after the first successful logon. Note that the password for the portal expires every 90 days.

Users that have a valid account on the portal, but lost their password, can recover their password by following this procedure:

1.Go to the portal and sign in with your username and any password.

2.A new sign in screen appears. Click the send me a new password link. A new temporary password will be sent to you through email.

Users attempting to log in using the wrong credentials are locked out after five failed attempts. If locked out, users must contact the HP leasing administrator listed on their UPS bill to reaccess the Utility Pricing Solutions Web portal.

Viewing the usage of a UPS computing resource on the portal is secure because a unique identifier is required to register a PPU server or URS disk array (see View Device for information about finding the unique identifier for a PPU WBEM Partition/Server). Additionally, a customer may request that their PPU or URS usage data is not viewable from the UPS Web portal.

1.11 Ordering

Each of the following items must be ordered from HP to build a Utility Meter:

•An HP 9000 or HP Integrity server to run the Utility Meter software (for details, see Recommended Hardware)

•The appropriate HP-UX operating system for the Utility Meter hardware:

•For T2805AA: either HP-UX 11i v2, or HP-UX 11i v3

•For T5462A: either HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v3

HP recommends HP-UX 11i v3.

•HP Utility Meter software and installation service—to ensure the initial Utility Meter software installation is performed successfully by the appropriate HP personnel, the following HP products must be ordered:

•For Pay per use (PPU):

•T2805AA (HP Utility Pricing Metering Software)

•HA113A1 option 57B (Utility Meter installation service for Pay per use)

•For Utility Ready Storage (URS):

•T5462A (HP Utility Ready Stor Utility Meter SW)

•HA113A1 option 57U (Utility Meter installation service for Utility Ready Storage)

The following HP Utility Meter items are included on the HP-UX media (CD or DVD) from the HP factory when the Utility Meter version 8.13 software product T2805AA is ordered:

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