License awareness fields

The following fields are relevant when you enable license awareness.

License awareness fields

Rack capacity (PVU): This field specifies the sum of all PVU (processor value units) on all compute nodes across all cloud groups.

Product

This field specifies the product name. This field is read-only and is automatically generated from the IBM® Software Catalog.

Product ID

This field specifies the product ID of a product. This field is read-only and is automatically generated from the IBM Software Catalog.

License type

This field shows the type of license for each product that is listed in the table. Products have one of the following types of licenses:

PVU
Server
Computenode
PerCore

Enforcement

This field specifies the action to take when the number of licenses that are reserved exceeds the number of licenses owned. The following values are available for this field:

Ignore: No enforcement action is taken. Deployments continue unhindered, but license usage is still monitored.; This value is overridden by the License limit value in the Environment limits section of the specified environment profile. If a value greater than 0 is specified for the License limit value, the license limit is enforced to that value, regardless of the Ignore value set for this field.
Warn: An error is logged in the audit logs and a warning message is included in the virtual system instance history. Email notifications are sent to communicate the warning. Deployments continue unhindered, but license usage is still monitored.
Enforce: Any deployments of virtual system instances or virtual machines, and also any operations that cause exceeding the license limit, fail with placement errors. These cases include new and existing deployments, and also deployments that were previously saved and are now started. Email notifications are sent to communicate the unsuccessful deployment.

Licenses owned

This field specifies the number of licenses you possess. This field must be set manually and the default value is 0.

Notify if usage reaches

This field specifies the percentage that is used to trigger a notification to all users that have the Create new catalog content role. The percentage is the licenses used to the licenses owned. Notifications are sent only if the check box Notify virtual image owners when license usage reaches the thresholds set below is selected. Notifications are sent if valid mail delivery information has been provided for your system. This field must be set manually and the default value is 90.0%.

Licenses in use

This field specifies the licenses that are being consumed by your virtual system instances. This field is read-only and automatically generated based on the current activity of your system.

Licenses reserved

This field specifies the licenses that are reserved for your virtual systems. This value is the number of licenses used plus the licenses that are currently reserved for stopped virtual system instances or individually stopped virtual machines. This field is read-only and automatically generated based on the current usage of your system.

Note: After you complete certain operations such as deploying, cloning, restarting, or deleting virtual systems in your environment, the license usage count might take up to five minutes to be updated.

In the cloud now

This field displays a list of all the virtual system instances that are using the associated virtual image. This list is a collection of links to these virtual system instances.