Consumption entitlement

Consumption is defined as the traffic in an execution environment. The metrics include decisions and rule artifacts. You can monitor this traffic through IBM® License Metric Tool (ILMT).

Your license covers consumption in the form of traffic between RuleApps and client applications. ILMT tracks key metrics to enable you to monitor this traffic.

For additional information about ILMT and instructions for using it with Operational Decision Manager components, go to the GitHub resource IBM Operational Decision Manager usage metering service External link opens a new window or tab. For information for Hadoop and Spark deployments, see Configuring metering for Hadoop and Spark deployments. You can also visit the website for ILMT at IBM License Metric Tool External link opens a new window or tab.

Metrics

ILMT provides information on the following metrics:

Decisions
This metric shows the number of calls to a decision service in Rule Execution Server for a specific time period. For example, if an application calls a decision service 10,000 times per hour in one day, the metric shows 240,000 calls for that day.
Artifacts

This metric shows the number of unique versioned artifacts in Decision Center. The artifacts are counted only once across all branches, releases and activities. If you use duplicates of artifacts, the artifacts are counted separately. The metering service does not see the duplication.

Types of artifacts:

  • Business artifacts (BAL rules, decision tables, decision trees, technical rules, functions)
  • Decision operations
  • Deployment configurations
  • Ruleflows
  • Queries
  • Variable sets
  • Business object models (BOMs)
  • Vocabulary
  • Business-to-Exchange (B2X) artifacts
  • Resources
  • Simulation artifacts (metrics, key performance indicators, report formats, input data, and simulations)
  • Test suites
  • Business Action Language (BAL) templates