Chapter 4 Overview

Moab Accounting Manager is an accounting management system that allows for usage tracking. charge accounting, and allocation enforcements for resource usage in technical computing environments. It acts somewhat like a bank in which credits are deposited into funds with constraints designating which entities may access the funds. As resources or services are utilized, funds are charged and usage recorded. It supports familiar operations such as deposits, withdrawals, transfers, and refunds. It provides balance and usage feedback to users, managers, and system administrators.

Since the accounting and billing models vary widely from organization to organization, Moab Accounting Manager has been designed to be extremely flexible, featuring customizable usage and fund configurations, and supporting a variety of tracking, charging and allocation models. Attention has been given to scalability, security, and fault tolerance.

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