Pre-installation setup for Data Replication

If you want to use Data Replication in watsonx.data™ integration, you must ensure that you have the proper license entitlement.

Licensing Data Replication for watsonx.data integration

License entitlement for Data Replication is based on the source/target databases (relational and NoSQL) involved in replication (including containerized, non-containerized, or managed services on public cloud).

Compliance reporting for IBM’s software is provided by:
  • IBM Licence Service for Containerized software
  • ILMT for Non-Containerized software

Non-containerized databases

For each non-containerized database where compliance reporting is required:
  1. Copy the ILMT SWID tag to the virtual or physical server where the data store is installed.
  2. Install the ILMT software by referring to License Metric Tool 9.2.

Adding ILMT SWID tags to non-containerized databases

There are numerous IBM licenses available for Data Replication. Check with your enterprise to find out which Data Replication licenses apply to your installation.

IBM Data Replication (Production/Non-production)
  • For each non-containerized database for which you purchased entitlements:
    1. Copy the SWID tag for the IBM license type you purchased to the Virtual server where the database is located. If the database is not on a Virtual server, copy the tag to a Virtual server in your enterprise.
    2. The SWID tag files are located in Fix Central.

Containerized databases

For each containerized database (relational or NoSQL) for where compliance reporting is required, you must follow specific guidelines.
Note: The following instructions are for installing custom resource files for data stores running in Openshift or Kubernetes clusters. These instructions are not applicable when the data source runs on other types of containers.

For each containerized data store where compliance reporting is required:

  1. Add the License Service Annotations to the data store pods by using the custom resource (CR) file.
  2. Install the License Service.

Ensure License Service is installed.

License Service annotations for watsonx.data integration

  • For each data store used as a replication target in a production environment create a CR file to update the pods for the target database. The following is an example of the custom resource: 
    apiVersion: operator.ibm.com/v1 
kind: IBMLicensingDefinition
metadata:
  name: idr-ls-wxdataintegration
  namespace: cpd-instance #Specify namespace for Database otherwise License Service will check all PODS in the cluster
spec:
  action: cloneModify
  condition:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        <key: value>
        ... 
# For the <key:value>, use existing annotations in your pod where data replication licensing needs to be counted. 

  scope: cluster
  set:
# License Service Annotation for IDRC for Cp4D
  cloudpakId: "f60f1cf096af466032b2d22c3dc16996"
  cloudpakName: "IBM watsonx.data integration"
  productID: "d01875e6142f478aa2e4fd35a2b205f8"
  productName: "Replication"
  productMetric: "VIRTUAL_PROCESSOR_CORE"
  productChargedContainers: "All"
  productCloudpakRatio: "1:11"
  cloudpakMetric: "RESOURCE_UNIT"
  • For each data store used as a replication source or target in a non-production environment create a CR file to update the pods for the source database. The following is an example of the custom resource:
    apiVersion: operator.ibm.com/v1 
kind: IBMLicensingDefinition
metadata:
  name: idr-ls-wxdataintegration
  namespace: cpd-instance #Specify namespace for Database otherwise License Service will check all PODS in the cluster
spec:
  action: cloneModify
  condition:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        <key: value>
        ... 
# For the <key:value>, use existing annotations in your pod where data replication licensing needs to be counted. 

  scope: cluster
  set:
# License Service Annotation for IDRC for Cp4D
  cloudpakId: "129f430e2cfc46b0639c1766d2c00b33"
  cloudpakName: "IBM watsonx.data integration Non Production"
  productID: "d01875e6142f478aa2e4fd35a2b205f8"
  productName: "Replication"
  productMetric: "VIRTUAL_PROCESSOR_CORE"
  productChargedContainers: "All"
  productCloudpakRatio: "1:11"
  cloudpakMetric: "RESOURCE_UNIT"