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Reports are the primary source of information about computers in your infrastructure and software that is installed on these computers.

The inventory data is collected from all computers in your infrastructure. When you decommission a computer it continues to report to License Metric Tool. For report accuracy, ensure that all infrastructure changes are reflected in License Metric Tool. For more information, see: Removing inactive computers.
Note: The data that is displayed on the reports is limited to the computer group to which the user belongs.

General

Report Description
Saved Reports The report provides information about saved reports, for example:
  • The base report from which the saved report was created.
  • The user who created it. Some of the reports are delivered with License Metric Tool. They are marked as created by the SYSTEM. Other reports are created by individual users.
  • Date and time when the saved report will be sent to the recipients that you specified in the schedule.

For more information, see: Creating saved report views.

Software Inventory

Report Required Permissions Description Predefined Views
9.2.19 Software Summary View Endpoints

The report provides an overview of software inventory in your environment. Each row represents a set of software instances that are grouped by the selected columns. You can limit the instances in the groups by using the report filters. By default, you can see only the instances that are currently installed and are not suppressed. To change the way how the data is displayed, select different report columns.

For example, you can filter the group by selecting a publisher. The Count column shows the number of software instances from the selected publisher.

You can drill down the Software Summary report to view the Software Classification panel with detailed information about all software instances from the related group, including component name, component version, and installation path.

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Software Installations View Endpoints

The report provides information about computers in your infrastructure and software items that are installed on these computers. You can see a detailed report for a single software item, when you click the link in the Details column.

The detailed view shows information about software signatures that were tried to detect the software or software identification tags that were discovered. The information is accompanied by the following icons:
  • Green tick - The signature matched the software item, or the software ID tag was discovered on the computer and caused software detection.
  • Red cross - The signature did not match the software item.

If you believe that software was erroneously detected, you can use this information to examine how the signature or the software ID tag was evaluated. You can also view the installation path of software that was discovered by a file-based signature. If software was discovered by a complex signature, you can view the hierarchical structure of the signature.

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Software Classification View Endpoints or Manage Software Classification

The report provides an overview of your software inventory and the relations between the discovered software components and licensable products. It provides a flat structure with software installations broken into single components, which makes it easier to view your software assets and manage relations between them. The Software Classification panel allows streamline management of your software inventory. To make your metric calculation accurate, assign each component to a product, exclude, or suppress the instances that should not be included in the calculation, and confirm your actions. After you classify all your components, and confirm all actions, software classification is complete.
The report provides the following predefined views:
  • First Detected Last Week shows the IBM software that was detected within the last week and is currently installed. It helps you to review the recently installed software and make an appropriate action, such as changing the component assignment.
  • Software Installations shows all components that are installed in your environment.
  • Current Installations shows software that is currently installed in your environment and its classification.
  • 9.2.16 Out of Support Software shows installations for which support already ended. The report additionally shows the installations of old software components that do not have the end of support date set but were created more than 6 years ago.
  • 9.2.16 Software Approaching End of Support shows software installations for which support ends within the next three months. The report additionally shows installations of the components that do not have the end of support set but were created between 5 years 9 months and 6 years ago. These installations will be reported as out of support within the next three months.
  • 9.2.14 Software Installations - Recent shows new software installations that were discovered within the last two weeks.
  • 9.2.14 Pending Classification shows the IBM software components that are not yet classified.

License Metrics

Report Required Permission Description Predefined Views
All Metrics View License Metrics
The report provides information about the utilization of license metrics for products that are installed on the computers in your infrastructure. For every product, you can see the maximum metric utilization and its history over the specified period. You can also specify a metric threshold to verify whether metric utilization is above or below your expectations. You can create a snapshot of the report, and store it for audit purposes. For more information, see: License metric utilization.
Important: If the report does not show products with a particular license metric, calculation of this metric might be disabled for the computer group to which you are assigned. For information about enabling the calculations, see: Setting up computer groups.
  • 9.2.16 Starting from application update 9.2.16, the report provides information about the top level of metric utilization, which means that stand-alone products and FlexPoint bundles are displayed. You can also see products that contribute to a FlexPoint bundle by applying the appropriate report filter.
  • 9.2.19 Starting from application update 9.2.19, the report provides information about Cloud Paks. You can also see products that contribute to a Cloud Pak by applying the appropriate report filter.
  • 9.2.35 Starting from application update 9.2.35, all products marked as entitled on Products & Metrics panel or those whose Part Numbers were imported are visible on the report. In case of entitled product for which there is no license usage data calculated (there is no discovery on Software Classification panel) the displayed records in "Metric Quantity" column will display value of "n/a".
9.2.4 The report provides the following predefined views:
  • PVU Subcapacity that shows only products that are licensed for PVU subcapacity.
  • 9.2.29 VPC Subcapacity that shows only products that are licensed for VPC subcapacity.
  • 9.2.29 Subcapacity Metrics that shows metric that are eligible for subcapacity licensing: PVU, VPC, and RVU MAPC.
  • 9.2.19 Cloud Paks and FlexPoints that shows information about non-containerized products that belong to Cloud Paks, and FlexPoint bundles.

    9.2.30 The name of the report changed in application update 9.2.30. Previously the report was called FlexPoints and Cloud Paks.

  • 9.2.14 All Metrics that shows all IBM products.
  • Metric Thresholds that includes a column in which you can specify a metric threshold. The threshold indicates the maximum number of metric units that a product can use within a computer group. It is then used to calculate whether metric utilization is above or below your expectations. For more information, see: Setting license metric threshold.
  • Exceeded Thresholds that shows only products for which metric utilization is above the specified threshold.
Audit Trail View Audit Trail
The report provides information about actions that have influence on the information that is displayed on other reports. You can view details of each action, its type, date, and the user who performed it.
Important: Audit trail shows actions that are performed only within the computer group to which the user who views the report has access.
The actions that are shown on the report include:
  • Modifications to the software classification: confirming and changing the default classification, sharing an instance between products, including an instance in and excluding it from pricing calculations
    Note: Audit trail does not contain information about software classification when either component, product or both are non-IBM.
  • Uploads: successful or failed upload of the software catalog, charge unit data, and PVU table
  • Imports: successful or failed import of the software catalog, charge unit data, and PVU table
  • VM managers: adding, modifying, and deleting VM managers
  • Updates to the scan configuration on the Scan Configurations panel
  • Changes of server parameters and advanced server settings
  • Changes of the PVU per core value
  • 9.2.32 Marking computers as running on a public cloud and clearing this indication
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9.2.1 Resource Utilization View License Metrics

The report provides information about the utilization of license metrics for products that deliver .slmtags. The report shows the maximum metric utilization and its trend value over the last 30 days. For every product, you can see the type and subtype of license metrics that a product uses as well as the first and last time when each metric was reported. You can also see the path to the .slmtag file from which the data was retrieved.

The report shows only products that deliver resource utilization data. It does not show products for which metric utilization is calculated and shown on the All Metrics report. For more information, see: Raw utilization of license metrics.

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Infrastructure

Report Required Permissions Description Predefined Views
Computers View Endpoints
The report provides information about computers in your infrastructure, such as their operating systems, IP addresses, and other information that can be used to identify them. Additionally, you can display information about the computer health, for example:
  • When the computer last connected to BigFix®
  • What version of the client is installed on the computer
  • What version of the catalog is available on the computer
  • When was the last attempt to run the scan
  • Whether each type of the software scan was successful
  • Whether the computer misses scan results
  • Whether it is running out of disk space
  • Whether it misses some prerequisites

When you click a link in the Name column, detailed information about a particular computer is displayed. You can now view reports narrowed down to this computer. To do this, select the report from the upper left corner.

9.2.5 IBM i You can decommission computers that are imported from the disconnected data source to remove them from the report. For more information, see: Decommissioning computers with disconnected scanners (disconnected scenario).
The report provides the following predefined views:
  • 9.2.4 Outdated Agents shows computers on which the BigFix client is not updated to the latest available version.
    Important: For some operating systems, support is withdrawn with newer versions of the BigFix client and only earlier versions are supported. Such a computer is reported as having an outdated version of the client even though a newer version is not available.
  • 9.2.4 Computers lists all computers in your infrastructure.
  • 9.2.4 Computers - Recent shows the computers that were added to License Metric Tool within the last two weeks.
  • 9.2.31 Computers with Issues shows computers that require troubleshooting because they did not upload new data within the last 10 days (by default) or they are experiencing problems with software or capacity scans.
9.2.31 The following predefined report views are removed.
  • Computers without Scan (Preview)
  • Computers without Recent Scan (Preview)
Computer Groups Manage Computer Groups

The report provides information about computer groups that are defined in your infrastructure. The information includes the ID of the computer group, its name, and description. You can find out how many computers and subgroups are in the computer group, and what software items are installed in that group.

When you click a link in the Name column, detailed information about a particular computer group is displayed. You can now view the reports narrowed down to the computers that belong to the group. To do this, from the upper left corner, select the report that you want to view for this computer group.

9.2.8 The report shows two types of computer groups: reporting and software template. Both types are visible to all entitled users. However, only an Administrator can create software template groups and modify software templates of existing groups of this type. For more information, see: Setting up computer groups.

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9.2.12 Shared Disks View Shared Disks

The report provides information about shared disks that are used in your infrastructure. For each shared disk, you can view information about its type, the exported directory, and the number of computers on which the disk is mounted. You can drill down the report to view detailed information about the shared directory or the computers on which the disk is mounted. If you use automatic scanning of shared disks, the report also shows the status of the scan and the computer that is designated to scan the shared disk.

To view information on the report, discover shared disks in your infrastructure. For more information, see: Discovering software on shared disks (BigFix scenario).

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Hardware Inventory View Hardware Inventory

The report provides information about the state of BigFix clients in your infrastructure. For every computer on which a client is installed, you can view processor details, and the number of PVUs assigned to each core.

If the PVU per core value that is assigned to a processor in your environment is incorrect, you can manually change it on the Hardware Inventory report to ensure that subcapacity licenses are properly calculated. For more information, see: Changing the PVU per core value.

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Catalog

Report Required Permissions Description Predefined Views
9.2.14 Products & Metrics (previously Software Catalog) View Software Catalog and Signatures

The report provides information about the content of the software catalog including software products and their publishers, part numbers that represent the products, and license metrics that the product uses.

  • 9.2.11 Starting from application update 9.2.11, when you drill down to the component level, you can also view the date when the software component reaches end of support.
  • 9.2.20 Starting from application update 9.2.20, the report shows your software entitlements. For more information, see: Defining software entitlements.
  • 9.2.21 Starting from application update 9.2.21, the report is used to import part numbers. for more information, see: Importing part numbers.
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Signatures View Software Catalog and Signatures

The report provides information about signatures that are available in the software catalog. You can find out what signature is used to detect each software item that exists in the catalog.

9.2.31 The report is removed in application update 9.2.31 as it duplicates information that can already be found in different places. If you are using breadcrumbs that are available at the top of the report to access certain types of information, the information is available on different reports.
  • Information from the Publishers section is no longer available as License Metric Tool discovers only IBM software.
  • Information from the Software Products section is available on the Products & Metrics report.
  • Information from the Software Versions section is no longer available as it is redundant. Software classification is performed on the product release level and license usage is reported on the product level. No actions in License Metric Tool are performed on the product version level.
  • Information from the Software Releases section is available after you click a link in the Product Name column on the Products & Metrics report.
  • Information from the Software Components section is available as a separate report from the Reports menu.
  • Information from the Signatures section is available after you click a link in the Name column on the Software Components report.
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Software Components View Software Catalog and Signatures The report provides information about software components that exist in the software catalog, including their names, GUIDs, and end-of-support dates. N/A