Hardware Requirements for Using BillMax

Hardware Requirements for Using BillMax
	Chapter 1. BillMax Installation Guide

The different parts of BillMax may operate on one machine or be spread across different machines. It is highly recommended that at a minimum that the BillMax software be installed on a machine behind a firewall. The exception to this is the software needed to run the Customer Interface. It is recommended that this be installed on a machine outside the firewall.

Specific hardware recommendations are difficult to make as it depends on the following:

The number of customers to manage.
What type of architecture is desired - Intel or Sparc.
What other software will be running on the hardware.

Items that affect performance of BillMax, in decreasing importance, are:

Memory - the more memory the server has, the faster BillMax will operate.
Disk speed - the faster the communication and data reads and writes, the faster BillMax will operate.
CPU - the faster the CPU, the faster the BillMax will operate

To put the hardware requirements into perspective, BillMax Billing Solutions is currently operating a benchmark instance of BillMax with the following characteristics:

Size of the BillMax instance
1. Accounts - over five hundred thousand.
2. Services - over six hundred thousand.
3. Financial transactions - Over twenty-two million financial records spanning a year
Hardware - 500 MHz pentium, 50 GB hard drive, 256 MB memory.
Average amount of processing time for closeofday processing (does the daily billing, suspending of Services etc.) - 5.5 hours. Note that this is while the system is available.

A minimal set of hardware for running BillMax might be:

A server for running all the BillMax software with the exception of the the Customer Interface.
A firewall - the same server that is running BillMax could be the firewall, but it isn't recommended.
A server for running the Customer Interface.

If desired, the database might be moved to a separate machine.

	Warning
	Do not install the database on NFS mounted disks.


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