Scenarios
To understand the business goals that you can achieve with IBM License Metric
Tool , familiarize yourself with the main user
scenarios. Each scenario presents a real-life example of using the
application and lists personas who are typically involved in achieving
a business goal.
Service providers
To view license metric utilization per customer in the service provider environment, you can use one of two approaches. If products that are used by each customer are installed on separate computers, divide the computers into groups and generate reports of license metric utilization per computer group. If component instances of a product that are used by multiple customers are installed on a single computer, create dedicated custom products for each customer. Then, assign component instances that are used by a particular customer to their dedicated product.
IBM subcapacity regions
Available from 9.2.2. IBM subcapacity licensing rules define three regions. To properly calculate subcapacity values for products that are installed in multiple regions, generate the audit snapshot for each region. Then, for every product, sum up the subcapacity values from all regions. The value that you obtain is the overall subcapacity usage for the particular product.
Organizational business units
Available from 9.2.2. To view license metric utilization per business unit, you can use one of two approaches depending on your scenario.
Tutorial: Reporting metric utilization per computer group
Available from 9.2.2. In this tutorial, you learn how to create computer groups that allow for managing software and generating audit snapshots for a subset of computers.
Tutorial: Reporting software that is installed on a single computer under multiple tenants
Available from 9.2.29.In this tutorial, you learn how to create dedicated products to report metric utilization separately when products are installed on a single computer but are used by different tenants. Tenants can represent different business units or different customers in the service provider environment.