BUDGET/RESULT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER USE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable to flexibly install or change programs, which constitute a budget/result management system, for computers in a cluster system that performs budget/result management for users' computer use to effectively use features of high availability and extensibility provided in the cluster system. SOLUTION: Programs, which constitute the budget/result management system, have budget check programs 102, which check budgets for users, a calculation values/statistics information collection agent 103, which collects billing information, and a budget/result management manger 202, which manages a budget/result management database 208. Names of machines, in which the budget check programs 102, the result values/statics information collection agent 103 and the budget/result management manager 202 are executed, are configured into a budget/result management structure definition file 104. Each of the budget check programs 102 and the result values/statistics information collection agent 103 refers to the budget/result management structure definition file 104 to acquire the name of a machine, in which the budget/result management manager 202 is executed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI