A Site Preparation Form for Pay Per Use

Use the Utility Meter Site Preparation Form below to plan the configuration of the Utility Meter PPU installation. Items of interest are:

•You can have up to 10 e-mail addresses for the Contact E-mail for Missing Data entries. HP recommends using an e-mail alias in your corporate e-mail system as the contact address for your Utility Meter. Enter the name of the alias (complete with domain name) as one of the e-mail addresses. Use an e-mail alias with a small number of contacts.

•Ensure that the network's DNS server(s) tables contain the IP address and hostname of the Utility Meter.

•If the data transport method is e-mail, add the Utility Meter to the access list of the selected mail server.

This form below is for Utility Meter software version 8.13 on HP-UX. It needs to be completed by the customer and returned to their local HP contact before the PPU installation starts. Please use one form per Utility Meter.

Table A-1 PPU Site Preparation Form

Question

Answer

 

 

 

Domain name for the PPU Utility Meter

 

 

 

 

 

Static IP address for LAN interface on the Utility Meter

 

 

 

 

 

Network mask for above

 

 

 

 

 

IP address for gateway to Internet

 

 

 

 

 

IP address of first DNS server

 

 

 

 

 

IP address of second DNS server (optional)

 

 

 

 

 

IP address of third DNS server (optional)

 

 

 

 

 

Local Time Zone for Utility Meter

 

 

 

 

 

IP address or hostname and domain name of NTP server

 

 

 

 

 

Speed setting of port on company’s Ethernet switch connecting to

 

10 – 100 – 1000

Utility Meter (put a circle around your choices)

 

HD – FD

 

 

 

 

 

Contact email addresses at customer site for missing Usage Data

1.

 

(up to 10)

2.

 

 

3.

 

 

4.

 

 

5.

 

 

6.

 

 

7.

 

 

8.

 

 

9.

 

 

10.

 

 

 

 

If transport of the PPU Usage Data is through email:

 

 

a. Hostname and domain name of Internet mail relay host:

a.

 

b. What is the masqueraded domain to create the “Return

b.

 

address” for the emails?

c.

Yes / No

c. Does the Internet mail relay specified in (a) accept to send

 

 

emails from the Utility Meter for username “root”?

d.

Yes / No

d. Does your organization accept to apply hostname

e.

Yes / No

masquerading for username “root”

 

 

e. Is the SMTP AUTH protocol implemented on the Internet mail

f.

Yes / No

relay specified in (a)?

 

 

f. Is Transaction Layer Security (TLS) implemented on the Internet

 

 

mail relay specified in (a)?

 

 

 

 

 

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