A system, method, and program product for determining an amount of usage
of applications in an LPAR in a computer system and a bill for such
usage. A guest operating system or other program executing in the LPAR
determines information indicative of an amount of usage of each of the
applications. Based on the information, an amount of usage of each of the
applications is reported to a billing function. The billing function
determines a bill for each of the applications based on the amount of
usage of each of the applications. The total usage of all of the
applications is determined and compared to an amount of usage of the LPAR
based on the system data, to audit the amount of usage of the
applications in the LPAR or a charge based on the amount of usage of the
applications.