Portions of the resource management configuration can be placed in a network name service. This capability allows the administrator to apply resource management constraints across a collection of machines, rather than on an exclusively per-machine basis. Related work can share a common identifier, and the aggregate usage of that work can be tabulated from accounting data.
Resource management configuration and workload-oriented identifiers are described more fully in Chapter 2, About Projects and Tasks. The extended accounting facility that links these identifiers with application resource usage is described in Chapter 4, About Extended Accounting.