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Correct understanding of CSV-version of PVU reports.

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Question

How to correctly interpret the values visible in the CSV version of PVU reports generated by LMT tool ?

Cause

The PVU repots in CSV format can be misinterpreted by some customers.

Answer

Please review the data in the attached document.

Please note the values in column N (Server PVU Subcapacity) - they do not refer to the specific network addresses/nodes displayed in column O (Network Address), but to the servers defined in column H (Server ID).

If it was otherwise the sum of PVU values for the specific product would be exactly 10000 (sum of all the values in the N column), while it is 1400 (column G - Product PVU Subcapacity).

The same applies to columns K, L and M.

ILMT/TAD4D tool does not provide the functionality to generate a report for a given period of time which would allows users to drill down to see PVU values for each individual node/agent.

The goal is to calculate values for physical machines (servers), not virtual machines/LPARs/zones/etc.

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[{"Product":{"code":"SS8JFY","label":"IBM License Metric Tool"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU053","label":"Cloud & Data Platform"},"Component":"--","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"},{"code":"PF027","label":"Solaris"},{"code":"PF010","label":"HP-UX"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"Version Independent","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB45","label":"Automation"}}]

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Modified date:
26 April 2021

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