Managing the infrastructure
After you complete the initial configuration of License Metric Tool , learn how to manage components of its
infrastructure: VM managers, server, database, and data sources.
Computer statuses
Deployment Health , Software Scan Health , and Capacity Scan Health widgets provide an overview of the condition of computers in your infrastructure. To ensure that reports of license metric utilization are accurate, monitor the status of computers and troubleshoot issues that arise. When working with the health-related widgets, resolve the issues by going from left to right. Start with issues that are reported on the Deployment Health widget as they can lead to issues that are reported on the Software Scan Health and Capacity Scan Health widgets.
Managing VM managers
VM managers are pieces of software that create, manage, and monitor virtual machines. You configure connections to VM managers so that License Metric Tool can gather data that is required to calculate utilization of license metrics in virtual environments.
Managing computers
You can perform a number of actions on the computers in your infrastructure including marking them as running on public clouds, creating custom rules and changing their PVU per core value. When you decommission a computer in your infrastructure, you should also remove it from License Metric Tool .
Administering the server
Perform administering tasks on your server to configure advanced settings, or restart its services.
Administering the database
Perform administering tasks on your database to keep it in good condition, protect your data, or configure additional settings.
Managing data sources
Computers in an organization can be divided into groups that are monitored by multiple BigFix® infrastructures. Each infrastructure is referred to as a data source. It is also possible to monitor a subset of computers with disconnected scanners. Such infrastructure is called a disconnected data source. Data from multiple data sources can be imported to one instance of License Metric Tool .
Creating users and groups
Each user who has access to License Metric Tool must be assigned a role and a computer group. The role defines which reports and panels the user can view. The computer group narrows down the scope of these reports and panels to computers that meet certain criteria.
Data retention periods
Adding custom computer properties
You can specify computer properties that are to be gathered from the computers in your infrastructure. You can then use those properties to filter data on the Computers report and to assign computers to computer groups.
Setting the home page
If you use a particular report or panel frequently, you can set it as License Metric Tool home page.
Tuning performance
Learn how to plan the infrastructure of IBM License Metric Tool and to configure the application server to achieve optimal performance. The following guidelines are applicable in big data environments as well as in smaller environments that are running on low-performance hardware.