License Service Installation: OVA

IBM® License Service is automatically installed in the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) and does not require any configuration for this deployment.

Prerequisites

Turbonomic version 8.9.3 or later.

Installing License Service

License Service is automatically installed in the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) when you run the t8cInstall.sh script. License Service installs in its own namespace, ibm-common-services, rather than in the Turbonomic namespace.

The installation script installs the prometheus-server pod in the turbonomic namespace since it is used by License Service to pull metrics.

When you run kubectl get pods -n ibm-common-services, you can see the two pods that are running in this namespace: ibm-licensing-operator and ibm-licensing-service-instance, as shown in the following example:

NAME                                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
ibm-licensing-operator-5fb7fcfbfc-wpc9q           1/1     Running   0          2d21h
ibm-licensing-service-instance-5945cd746b-ds9cg   1/1     Running   0          2d21h

Retrieving License Service data

You can use the License Service user interface (UI) in your browser to retrieve license usage data for monitoring and compliance. You can also retrieve an audit snapshot of the data to use as audit evidence. For more information, see Retrieving License Usage Data.