Monitoring usage of software licenses
You can use the License Usage Monitor application to monitor your usage of licenses for products based on Tivoli®'s process automation engine. You can use this information to optimize the usage of licenses and determine whether your organization is using more than the purchased number of licenses.
The License Usage Monitor application does not prevent overuse of licenses and does not replace the IBM license auditing process. This application gathers information to help you understand your license usage. You can use IBM® License Metric Tool to automatically gather license usage information into an XML file.
Supported products
- Maximo Asset Management
- Maximo Asset Management Scheduler
- Maximo Anywhere
- Maximo Calibration
- Maximo for Transportation
- Maximo for Service Providers
- Maximo for Oil and Gas
- Maximo for Utilities
- Maximo Health, Safety and Environment Manager
If you install any other product, all users that have access to that product are marked as unlicensed users.
Enabling license monitoring
- Create license records.
- Configure and enable the License Usage Monitor cron task.
- Optionally, you can assign licenses to users, for example, assigning authorized licenses to system administrators.
The License Usage Monitor application displays only the most recent license usage data that is calculated by the cron task. To view historical license data, use the reports that are provided with the application or create an ad hoc report. By default, license data is saved in the database for two years. You can configure this setting by using the System Properties application.
License records
Type | Description |
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Authorized | The number of authorized license users who are displayed in the Licenses Used By table equals the total number of licenses that are deployed. Users who qualify for authorized licenses also qualify for concurrent licenses. Authorized licenses are assigned first. When no authorized license is available, concurrent licenses are assigned. |
Concurrent | Concurrent licenses are based on the number of users who are logged in at a time. The number of users who are displayed in the Licenses Used By table might not be equal to the total number of licenses that are deployed. Users who qualify for concurrent licenses also qualify for authorized licenses. Concurrent licenses are assigned after all available authorized licenses are assigned. |
Limited | Users have read-only access to any installed Maximo application. Users can update data in only three Maximo modules per session. Users can update work orders that are assigned to them, and the Work Orders module does not count towards the three-module limit. |
Express | Users have read-only access to any installed Maximo application. Users can run and view reports, view records, and approve and update work orders. If a user qualifies for an express license but an express license is not available, the user is given a limited licensed. |
Self-service | Users can access only the self-service applications. You do not need to create license records for self-service licenses. |