Tracking license usage
Use the IBM® Endpoint Manager Service to pass information from your deployed instances to your external IBM BigFix server (formerly known as Endpoint Manager server).
Before you begin
By default, licenses and PVUs are not tracked. If you are an IBM subcapacity licensing customer and use IBM License Metric Tool reporting, you can include your system usage in the IBM License Metric Tool reports.
In the earlier release of IBM Cloud Pak System, IBM License Metric Tool agents and IBM BigFix clients are automatically installed
to new deployments on the system after the IBM Endpoint Manager Service is deployed.
Important: IBM Cloud Pak System has removed the BigFix license
entitlement. For continued usage, you need to procure HCL BigFix license from HCL. Existing clients
are also not entitled for BigFix if they upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak System
Version 2.3.4. For more information about
procuring and uploading to IBM Cloud Pak System, see BigFix procurement and Downloading HCL BigFix and uploading to IBM Cloud Pak System.
When the IBM Endpoint Manager Service
is running, data is passed from deployed instances to your external BigFix server. If your BigFix server infrastructure includes an IBM License Metric Tool server, you can use the IBM License Metric Tool reports to track the server licenses and
measure the processor value units (PVUs) that are available and used by the virtual machines that
are deployed in the system. Other license types are not tracked by the system. An IBM License Metric Tool server is not provided by Cloud Pak System. You must
set up your own IBM License Metric Tool server. For more
information about the IBM License Metric Tool infrastructure,
see License Metric Tool infrastructure. About this task
IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) server 7.x is no longer supported for use with Cloud Pak System. You must upgrade your IBM License Metric Tool server to version 9.x. for use with Cloud Pak System. For details about IBM License Metric Tool migration from 7.x to 9.x, see Migrating from License Metric Tool and Tivoli® Asset Discovery for Distributed 7.2.2 and 7.5.
Procedure
You must deploy the IBM Endpoint Manager Service so that
data from deployments is provided to your BigFix server through the relay. For more
information, see IBM Endpoint Manager Service.
Note: The IBM License Metric Tool migration steps include a
requirement to install a BigFix client on
each endpoint that you want to include in your upgraded environment. After the IBM Endpoint Manager Service is deployed, BigFix clients are automatically installed on
all new deployments in Cloud Pak System. Therefore,
manual installation of the clients is only required for instances that were deployed before the IBM Endpoint Manager Service.