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You can start or stop any component installed on your Windows 
server as a service—Accounting Server, for example— from the 

 window in the Control Panel. Configure PAS services using 

System Manager. When you run the automated install program, 
you can configure services to start automatically. 

The machine where the Accounting Server service resides is 
referred to as ‘the accounting server’. The accounting server 
requires an activation keycode. The activation keycode that you 
receive from Software Metrics with your registration depends on 
whether you purchased the Single-Server Edition (SE) or Enterprise 
Edition (EE).

When you install Software Metrics (SM) print monitors on a Win-
dows server and set up logical printers to use those monitors, that 
system is referred to as a ‘print server’. The basic licenses for SE 
enables you to install core PAS services and the print monitors on a 
single system, while the EE license provides the option for install-
ing print monitors remotely. Therefore, your accounting server also 
functions as the PAS print server.

The SM print monitors integrate with the Windows NT spooler ser-
vice. After you run the automated install program on the print 
server, you must add a printer port that uses an SM print monitor 
and then set up a logical printer that uses that port. Configure the 
print monitors using the 

 dialog on the print server’s 

 menu.

The Administrative Tools—System Manager, Accounts Manager, 
Deposit Station, and Cashier—appear in the program group that 
you select during the automated install.

There is no limitation to the number of systems on which you 
install System Manager, Accounts Manager, Deposit Station, and 
Cashier. These administrative tools do not require an activation 
keycode.

The Client Tool can be installed on network machines, as required. 
The Web Tools are installed on a server that provides web services. 
Users access the Web Tools using a web browser.

Usually you will select and copy files for the workstation tools on 
the server when you run the automated install program, and then 
install them on the workstations.

Before you install Printer Accounting Server, you should consider 
the potential size of your PAS database and the Database Manage-
ment System (DBMS) that you will use for it. The next two sections 
describe how to select an appropriate location and DBMS for the 
PAS database.

At installation, the initial database size is about 600 KB. The 
amount of future disk space required is determined primarily by 
the amount of printing traffic that your server processes, because 
each print job is recorded in the database.

While the exact amount of storage space required for a given print 
job can vary—depending largely on the length of the print job 
name and the number of different page characteristics within the 
print job—a reasonable average can be estimated at about 200 
bytes per job. For example, if you intend to maintain an average of 
two months of full history in your current transaction table, and 
your average monthly print traffic consists of 20,000 print jobs, the 
space that you will require for the database is approximately:

In this example, the expected size of the database at the end of 
two months is 8.6 MB. You should also allow additional disk space 
as a safety precaution. 

You can reduce the amount of required disk space by scheduling a 
regular archiving process, explained in Chapter 15, "Scheduling 
events". The archive process reduces some of the detailed print job 
information that is stored in the database. Each archive database 
record requires only about 50 bytes of storage, and far fewer 
records will be required than for detailed print job storage.

20,000 jobs

X 2 months

X 200 bytes

8 MB

+ 600 KB (base)

 Total space required = 8.6 MB

When you run the automated install program and select the 
Accounting Server, you can select a Microsoft JET, Microsoft SQL 
Server, or Oracle DBMS. 

The default database type for PAS 2.5 is Microsoft JET (also used by 
Microsoft Access 97). Microsoft JET is a low-overhead database that 
does not require additional software or licensing, and is well suited 
for a small- to medium-size database.

If you select the Microsoft JET option, the system locates the data-
base in the ‘Database’ subdirectory of your installation subdirec-
tory. Ensure that the disk you select has sufficient space to enable 
future database growth.

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Note: The Microsoft JET DBMS is installed with Single-Server Edition.

If you select SQL Server or Oracle DBMS you may require the assis-
tance of your database administrator (DBA) to create and configure 
the database. SQL Server and Oracle databases require additional 
configuration before they can be run with PAS.

To switch to SQL Server or Oracle DBMS after operating Printer 
Accounting Server with the JET database, you must use the Access 
upsizing tools supplied by Microsoft or Oracle, respectively. These 
tools transfer both the database schema and the accumulated data 
to the new database.

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Note: Do not select the SQL Server or Oracle DBMS unless you are 
familiar with SQL and Oracle. The Microsoft JET database is adequate 
for most networks.