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You must ensure that your use and configuration of the product conforms to the license agreement that you have purchased.

License Service for IBM App Connect for Manufacturing containers

Overview

If you create your own container with IBM App Connect for Manufacturing on distributed platforms, you must install an IBM License Service operator and add annotations to your container to ensure that you comply with the IBM licensing requirements.

License Service is required for monitoring and measuring license usage of IBM App Connect for Manufacturing in accordance with the pricing rule for containerized environments. Manual license measurements are not allowed. You must deploy the License Service on all clusters where IBM App Connect for Manufacturing is installed.

The integrated licensing solution collects and stores the license usage information, which can be used for audit purposes and for tracking license consumption in cloud environments. The solution works in the background and does not require any configuration. Only one instance of the License Service is deployed per cluster regardless of the number of Cloud Paks and containerized products that you have installed on the cluster.

Deploying License Service

You must deploy License Service on each cluster where IBM App Connect for Manufacturing is installed. License Service can be deployed on any Kubernetes cluster. For more information about License Service, how to install and use it, see License Service documentation.

Validating License Service

To ensure that license reporting continuity for license compliance purposes, make sure that License Service is successfully deployed and periodically verify whether it is active.

For example, to validate whether License Service is deployed and running on the cluster, you can log in to the cluster and run the following command:

`kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | grep ibm-licensing | grep -v operator`

The following response is a confirmation of successful deployment:

1/1     Running

IBM App Connect for Manufacturing

Use the following annotation for IBM App Connect for Manufacturing.

Important: You must install an IBM License Service operator and add annotations to your container to ensure that you comply with the IBM licensing requirements.


cloudpakId: "d7756bb412cd48c0940ba6f73e70014f"
cloudpakName: "IBM App Connect Enterprise for Manufacturing"
productID: "b8b6252aa88b4cd996c4b7aca350d2fe"
productName: "IBM App Connect Enterprise"
productMetric: "VIRTUAL_PROCESSOR_CORE"
productChargedContainers: "All"
productCloudpakRatio: "4:1"
cloudpakMetric: "INSTALL"