Excluding software from license audit reports

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Use the Deployed Software application to exclude deployed software records from being considered by license audit reports.

About this task

You can exclude the selected deployed software records from the license auditing process. Software records that you might want to exclude are records for software that is used for disaster recovery, early support programs (for example, beta programs), development or testing, evaluations or trials, and the like, provided the software license agreement permits such exclusion and all exclusion conditions are met.
Excluded software is omitted from the following reports:
  • Install based audit (installaudit.rptdesign)
  • Install based audit by customer (installaudit.rptdesign)
  • Points based audit (pointsaudit.rptdesign)
  • Points based license audit by customer (pointsaudit.rptdesign)
  • Processor based audit (cpuaudit.rptdesign)
  • Processor core based audit (cpucoreaudit.rptdesign)
  • PVU based audit (pvuaudit.rptdesign)
  • PVU based audit by customer (pvuaudit.rptdesign)
  • PVU subcapacity based audit (pvusubaudit.rptdesign)
  • PVU subcapacity based audit by customer (pvusubaudit.rptdesign)
  • RVU based audit (rvuaudit.rptdesign)
  • RVU subcapacity based audit (rvusubaudit.rptdesign)
  • MSU based license audit (msuaudit.rptdesign)
  • MSU based license audit by customer (msuaudit.rptdesign)
  • Mainframe value unit audit (valueunitaudit.rptdesign)

By default, the Use Exemption and Justification Remarks fields on the Deployed Software tab are empty for the current record. After a deployed software record is excluded, these fields reflect the information supplied in the Modify Software Use Exemption window once you complete the Modify Software Use Exemption action.

To exclude software from license audit reports. complete the following procedure.

Procedure

  1. On the navigation bar, click Open Menu > Assets > Deployed Assets > Deployed Software.
  2. Place the cursor in the Software Product Name field. Type a filter term if you want to limit the list of records. Click Enter.
  3. In the Deployed Software table window, click the record that you want to exclude from audits.
    The record is displayed on the Deployed Software tab.
  4. Select the Modify Software Use Exemption action.
    Note that, for deployed software records that meet the exclusion criteria, the Modify Software Use Exemption action is available on all tabs. In the record list, if you do not select one or more records while attempting to change the use exemption, the following message will be displayed This action affects all n records in this result set, where n is the number of records in your set. Click OK to proceed with the exclusion of all records or click Cancel to cancel the exclusion.
  5. In the Modify Software Use Exemption window, select a use exemption from the list and note the reason for excluding the software from audit reports in the Justification Remarks field.
  6. To exclude the selected deployed software records, click OK.

What to do next

Note: To include in license audit reports software that is currently excluded, follow this procedure, but in step 3 click the record that you want to include, and in step 5 clear the exemption in the Modify Software Use Exemption window. Then click OK.