Adding an IBM product to the software catalog

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9.2.29 Available from 9.2.29.

You can add an IBM product to the software catalog to address a situation in which instances of a product component are installed on a single computer but are used by different tenants and you want to report metric utilization of each component separately for each tenant. You can also use such a dedicated product to monitor supporting programs with license restrictions or to address catalog problems.

Before you begin

To learn more about scenarios that you can address by adding a product to the software catalog, see the following links.

About this task

An icon representing a user. You must have the View Software Catalog and Signatures and Manage Metric Quantity Declarations (previously: Manage Licenses) permissions to perform this task.
Important: Products that you create do not follow changes to bundling rules that are delivered with new software catalogs. Thus, it is you responsibility to define and manage bundling relations properly. Also, such products cannot be assigned to Cloud Paks.

Procedure

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Reports > Products & Metrics.
  2. Hover over Edit and click Add Product.
  3. Specify product details.
    1. Specify the product name.
    2. Select the license metric that the product uses.
    3. Specify the product release number in the following format: <integer>.<integer>. For example, 6.5.
  4. To add the product, click OK.

Results

To assign discovered components to the product that you added, create a custom bundling. For more information, see: Assigning components to products and Cloud Paks according to custom bundling relations.