Beginning in version 8.7, you can track your license usage for BMC Server Automation, and also how to view trends for agent deployment. The topic includes the following sections:
The following table lists the types of licenses and corresponding entitlements.
License | Applies to these job types |
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BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite | All types of jobs |
BMC Server Automation - License Add-on | All types of jobs |
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation – Compliance Module | Compliance, SCAP, Audit, Snapshot |
BMC Server Automation – Compliance License Add-on | Compliance, SCAP, Audit, Snapshot |
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation – Configuration Module | NSH, Deploy |
BMC Server Automation – Configuration License Add-on | NSH, Deploy |
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation – Provisioning Module | Bare Metal , Virtual Guest Job |
BMC Server Automation – Provisioning License Add‐on | Bare Metal , Virtual Guest Job |
BMC Server Automation – Patch License Add‐on | Patch Analysis |
To evaluate product usage trends
On the Health and Value Dashboard, select the Product Usage Trends option:
When you select the Product Usage Trends option, the following report is displayed. There are two sections to the report:
You can also perform the following tasks for the graphs:
Task | Description |
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To populate or refresh the graphs | Do one of the following:
Once the job or command completes successfully, the report will be populated. |
To change the time period for the License Usage Trends graph | Run the following command using the BMC Server Automation Application Server Administration console (the
Where <months> is the number of months for which you want the report displayed. The default is 12 months. |
Run the following commands using the blasadmin
utility:
Command | Used to... |
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show licenseusage | Provide a list of types of licenses. |
set licenseusage <licenseSKUType> <no. of licenses> | Set number of licenses for a particular module type, where <licenseSKUType> is one of the following:
For example: |
You can generate reports within a relative date range that you specify, or an absolute date range.
Note
The BLCLI commands for generating license usage reports have been optimized in version 8.7 of BMC Server Automation. For earlier versions of BMC Server Automation (8.6.x or earlier), it is recommended that you do not use these BLCLI commands. Instead, you can use a script provided by BMC.
To generate summary and detail reports of active agents, and the kinds of jobs performed on these agents within a specified relative date range, enter the following BLCLI Utility command:
agentLicenseUsageReportByRelativeDateRange <reportFilePath> <relativeRangeValue>
Where:
The following example shows how to use this command to obtain a report for the last month.
blcli Utility agentLicenseUsageReportByRelativeDateRange /mydir/report 1 month
To generate summary and details report of active agents and the types of jobs performed on these agents within an absolute date range, use following BLCLI Utility command:
agentLicenseUsageReportByAbsoluteDateRange <reportFilePath> <"startDateString"> <"endDateString">
Where:
The following example shows how to use this command to obtain a report for a specific date range:
blcli Utility agentLicenseUsageReportByAbsoluteDateRange /mydir/report "2010/01/12 01:02:04--‐0500" ""
The following is an example of the summary report that is generated in CSV format.
The following is an example of the summary report that is generated in CSV format.