Reported license metrics

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License Metric Tool reports utilization for a number of license metrics. It also shows products that are assigned any IBM metric even if calculating utilization is not yet supported for this metric. It gives you an overview of all IBM metrics for which you should have licenses.

License metric utilization is calculated for products that are assigned to one of the metrics that are listed in the following table. Their utilization is shown on the All Metrics report. For more information, see: License metric utilization. For every of these metrics, License Metric Tool calculates the so-called high-water mark. For more information, see: High-water mark.

Table 1. Metrics for which utilization is calculated
Metric Description
9.2.7 Install Instances A unit of measure that is based on the number of installed instances regardless of whether the instances are installed on one or many computers. For example, when three instances of a product are installed on one computer, the metric quantity is 3.
Processor Value Unit (PVU) For more information, see: Processor value unit (PVU).

9.2.27 Starting from application update 9.2.27, License Metric Tool supports reporting a fixed PVU value per software instance. It can be used to calculate PVU consumption by some products that run in the warm standby more, for example DB2. For more information, see: Fixed PVU and VPC values for instances running in the warm standby mode.
Resource Value Unit (RVU MAPC) For more information, see: Resource value unit (RVU MAPC).
9.2.11 Virtual Processor Core (VPC) For more information, see: Virtual processor core (VPC).

9.2.27 Starting from application update 9.2.27, License Metric Tool supports reporting a fixed VPC value per software instance. It can be used to calculate VPC consumption by some products that run in the warm standby more, for example DB2. For more information, see: Fixed PVU and VPC values for instances running in the warm standby mode.
9.2.13 FlexPoint PVU and RVU software that is assigned to a FlexPoint bundle, must be licensed based on subcapacity rules. For more information, see: FlexPoints.
Other IBM metrics

License Metric Tool reports utilization of any license metric for products that deliver .slmtag files. For more information, see: Other IBM metrics.

Apart from license metrics for which utilization is calculated, License Metric Tool also shows all other metrics that are used by IBM products in your infrastructure. Even though utilization is not calculated for these metrics, it gives you an overview of all IBM metrics for which you should have licenses.

If license metric utilization is not reported for a product, you can declare it manually. For more information, see: Setting and removing the declared metric quantity.