License Management

Click Licenses tab in the Control Center Director navigation menu to view license usage metrics for Connect:Direct servers deployed in your environment.

License Governance targets delivering clear benefits to your organization such as, compliance auditing, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. Following licenses are available in distribution for IBM Connect:Direct:

  • Premium Edition z/OS
  • Premium Edition Distributed
  • Standard Edition
  • Solo Edition licenses

Before you begin

Configure your Control Center Director instance to access Connect:Direct servers license data.

Key Provisioning Concepts

Licenses provides information that helps determine your overall compliance against a license type per environment.

Use Licenses view:
  • to display licenses types and metrics available by server in your environment that is, Production, Non-Production, or Unconfigured
  • current license usage by license type in your environment
  • to export usage data into a report (csv format) to ensure compliance auditing
  • for a consolidate view of license details and other licensing parameters for all servers bundled under the selected Server Group
Note: Your user role determines what is displayed in Licenses view. Example: If you are a restricted user, clicking Distribution displays only license usage data only for servers/groups assigned to the user.
Note: The license snapshot displays data by an offset from UTC that is, UTC+2:00.

Initial Administrator work flow: Licenses

The following steps shows the initial work flow for a Control Center Director Web Console Administrator:

  1. View server distribution by license type in a production environment
    1. Click Production to display server distribution by licenses type in production environment
    2. View current usage and metrics by license type for all servers in a production environment
    3. Select an entry and click Export to generate license usage report in a csv format
    4. Click an entry to observe licensing parameters for the selected server
  2. View server distribution by license type in a non-production environment
    1. Click Non Production to display server distribution by licenses type in a non-production environment
    2. View current usage and metrics by license type for all servers in a non-production environment
    3. Select an entry and click Export to generate license usage report in a csv format
    4. Click any entry to observe licensing parameters for the selected server
  3. View server distribution and licensing properties in an unconfigured environment
    1. Click Unconfigured to display server distribution in a unconfigured environment
    2. View current usage and metrics by license type for all servers in a unconfigured environment
    3. Select an entry and click Export to generate license details in a csv format
    4. Click any entry to observe licensing parameters for the selected server
  4. Consolidated view of license information for all child servers under a parent server group
    1. Click Server Groups > select a Server Group and observe licensing details for all child servers.
    2. Select an entry and click Export to generate license details in a csv format

      For detailed step-by-step walk-through see, Control Center Director step-by-step User Guide.