tw_license_report
The tw_license_report
utility enables you to track and manage your BMC Discovery license usage.
Recommendation
Use the BMC Discovery user interface to perform the functionality provided by the tw_license_report
command line utility (see Managing licences). If you choose to run the utility, read the documentation in this section to learn its usage and to understand the risks and potential impact on your environment.
Options in the utility specify how the license reports can be configured, exported, and imported, or downloaded from another BMC Discovery appliance. To use the utility, enter the following command:
tw_license_report [options]
where options are any of the options described in the following table and the common command line options described in Using command line utilities.
Command Line Option | Description |
---|---|
| Output an anonymized version of the detailed report. |
| Download and import license data from a remote appliance. The remote appliance must have HTTPS enabled. Specify the appliance by hostname or IP address. |
| Specify the report end date in the following date format: |
| Export raw license data to a zip file. |
| Export all license data to a zip file containing multiple csv files. |
| Ignore certificate verification failures. |
| Import raw license data from a zip file. Used to produce a consolidated report from multiple appliances. You can also download and import directly from a remote appliance using the |
| Write the license report to a file. |
| The local password. |
| The password for downloading from a remote BMC Discovery appliance. Used with |
| The username for downloading from a remote BMC Discovery appliance. Used with |
| Specify the report start date in the following date format: |
User example
In the following example, type the commands on a single line. Line breaks are provided to make the example easier to read.
Running a report
The first example is a default report run by the system user:
[tideway@appliance_01 ~]$ tw_license_report --username=system Password for BMC Discovery UI user system: Collecting for: Cloud Hosted Databases Collecting data from: local data of Cluster-01 (11.2) Processed 8 live entries Processed 0 destroyed entries ... ... License report ============== Report start time: 2016-09-04 16:13:04.411508+00:00 Report end time : 2017-09-04 16:13:04.411545+00:00 Highest monthly average capacity for Cloud Resources: 1628 (2017-02) Highest monthly average capacity for Hosts: 1204 (2017-02) Aggregating data from these directories: /usr/tideway/var/license_data - local data of Cluster-01 (11.2) ... ... Installed additional content: TKU-Storage-2067-08-1-ADDM-11.2+ (First seen: 2017-09-03, Last seen: 2017-09-03) EDP-2067-08-1-ADDM-11.2+ (First seen: 2017-09-03, Last seen: 2017-09-03) Cloud Hosted Databases (Cloud Resources) ---------------------------------------- Average numbers per month: 2017-01 - 870 2017-02 - 900 2017-03 - 300 2017-04 - 300 2017-05 - 300 2017-06 - 590 2017-07 - 590 2017-08 - 302 2017-09 - 70 Cloud Virtual Machines (Cloud Resources) ---------------------------------------- Average numbers per month: 2017-01 - 290 2017-02 - 728 2017-03 - 870 2017-04 - 600 2017-05 - 445 2017-06 - 590 2017-07 - 870 2017-08 - 304 2017-09 - 71 Hosts (Hosts) ------------- Average numbers per month: 2017-01 - 951 2017-02 - 1204 2017-03 - 1000 2017-04 - 853 2017-05 - 650 2017-06 - 351 2017-07 - 302 2017-08 - 567 2017-09 - 86 [tideway@appliance_01 ~]$
For more information about using licensing management, see Managing licenses.
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