The Licensing dashboard, which is the License Service Reporter user interface, is extended with the deep dive view. Thanks to the deep dive you can view and understand the contribution of individual bundled products and clusters to the overall license usage of your products. For more information, see Viewing license usage on the Licensing dashboard.
The enhanced time range selector on the Licensing dashboard allows the flexible reporting period selection. The new selector is optimized for customizing your reports to view the previous or current calendar months, quarters, and years, as well as the custom time range. For more information, see Viewing license usage on the Licensing dashboard.
License Service Reporter configuration is simplified. When you deploy the tool in the cluster, the License Service instance for this cluster is automatically configured to feed data into License Service Reporter. For more information, see Configuring data sources.
License Service is extended with a new tool, License Service Reporter, that provides a new way of tracking license usage of your IBM Cloud Pak solutions and IBM® stand-alone containerized software in multicloud environments. License Service Reporter is not obligatory. However, after deployment and configuration, it offers you a unique, aggregated overview of the license usage in your multicluster environment that is presented on a user interface. Additionally, you can also retrieve License Service Reporter data through the set of dedicated APIs. For more information, see Tracking license usage in multicluster environment with License Service Reporter.
You can retrieve information about License Service version and health by using the new APIs. For more information, see APIs for retrieving License Service data.
License Service support is extended with Linux® on Power® (ppc64le) and Linux® on IBM Z® and LinuxONE. For the full list of supported platforms, see Supported OpenShift versions and platforms.
License Service supports license usage measurements for stand-alone IBM Container Software on all Kubernetes-orchestrated clouds.
License Service collects and measures the license usage of IBM Cloud Pak solutions and their bundled products that are enabled for reporting and licensed with the Managed Virtual Server (MVS) license metric.
You can check the installer version in the configmap by running the following command:
oc -n kube-public get ConfigMap ibmcloud-cluster-info -o jsonpath='{.data.version}'
If there is no ibmcloud-cluster-info configmap in your cluster, it means that the service was installed by installer version 1.1.0 and the service is version 3.0.5 or newer. You can check the Installed Operators tab in the
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform console to find the accurate version.