Tracking license usage of your environment

Use the License Tracking utility to generate license usage reports (XML and HTML formats). These reports provide the count or number of managed services and average number of server endpoints that are currently consumed in your environment. You can then compare these numbers with the numbers that you are entitled to use based on your license.

All system entities, including the Unassigned and Dismissed entities are counted. To exclude the entities from the Unassigned and Dismissed folder in the reports, you need to purge the entities. For details, see Global-configuration.


 

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Overview

The license summary for BMC Helix Continuous Optimization for Servers provides the following details:

  • Overall average number of managed servers 
  • Overall average number of managed servers that are distinct by name
  • Average number of managed servers imported from Capacity Agents
  • Average number of managed servers imported from Capacity Agents that are distinct by name
  • Overall number of managed network devices
  • Overall number of managed ports
  • Total number of licenses for serverless assets

If you have installed the BMC License Usage Collection Utility, you can enter the host name and port number to connect to the BMC Helix Continuous Optimization server and generate the license summary. For more information, see BMC License Usage Collection Utility.

Workflow for using the License Tracking utility

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Restrictions in the license summary

The following restrictions are applicable in the license summary:

  • The license summary counts only distributed (not mainframe related) entities according to the managed systems, even when the “BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization for Mainframe” add-on is installed. 
  • The license summary does not support tracking of the number of CPU sockets, which can represent the Unit of Measure used for your BMC Helix Continuous Optimization license entitlement. The number of CPU sockets is usually not a configuration metric provided by the data sources integrated by BMC Helix Continuous Optimization.

To generate a license report 

  1. In Administration > SYSTEM > Maintenance, select the Maintenance Activities tab.
  2. In the row for the License Tracking utility, click run.png.
    The Overview page of Run: License Tracking is displayed.
  3. Click Next.
    The Hosts selection page of Run: License Tracking is displayed.
  4. Select the required hosts and click Proceed.
    The License Tracking utility runs and generates the license report. The Maintenance page refreshes and the License Tracking record in the table displays an updated execution date and status. 
  5. To access the report:
    1. Ensure that the status of the License Tracking record shows ENDED. 
    2. Click  view_log.png to view the the deployment log. In the Deployment logs for the License Tracking utility, click download.png. to download a zip file that contains the license.xml and license.html summary files and other detailed report files.

 

 

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