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 the 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. Systems in the report are considered Active if metrics have been populated in the last 2 days (last activity). For details, see Configuring-the-global-settings.

For a daily count, the license report considers only systems whose last activity date is updated to today (the same day). 

The license tracking utility calculates the overall monthly average asset count by performing the following tasks:

  1. Extract daily unique assets count - Collect the daily asset counts from the usage report. Consider those assets whose last activity date is updated to today.
  2. Calculate the total assets count - Add all the daily asset count for the month.
  3. Calculate the monthly average asset count - Divide the total daily asset count by the number of days in the month to determine the monthly average count. 
  4. Update the Monthly Report - Present the monthly average count in the monthly average report. 


Overview

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

  • Overall average number of managed servers

Systems

Unit of Measure

Application Server

Number of application server

Batch Server

Number of batch server

Database Server

Number of database server

Generic

number of generic physical server

HP nPartition

Number of hp npartition

HP vPartition

Number of hp vpartition

IPTV Server

Number of IPTV Servers

SOA Server

Number of SOA Servers

Storage Host - RHEV

Number of storage host rhev

Virtual Host - Acropolis

number of virtual host - acropolis

Virtual Host - AIX PowerVM

number of virtual host - aix powervm

Virtual Host - HP Integrity

number of virtual host - hp integrity

Virtual Host - HP nPar/vPar

number of virtual host - hp npar/vpar

Virtual Host - Hyper-V

number of virtual host - hyper-v

Virtual Host - KVM

Number of virtual host kvm

Virtual Host - Solaris

number of virtual host - solaris

Virtual Host - VMware

number of virtual host - vmware

Virtual Host - Xen

number of virtual host - xen

Virtual Machine - Acropolis

number of virtual machine - acropolis

Virtual Machine - AIX LPAR

Number of virtual machine aix lpar

Virtual Machine - AIX Shared Processor LPAR

number of virtual machine - aix shared processor lpar

Virtual Machine - AIX VIO LPAR

Number of virtual machine aix vio lpar

Virtual Machine - AWS

Number of virtual machine aws

Virtual Machine - Azure

number of virtual machine - azure

Virtual Machine - HP Integrity

number of virtual machine - hp integrity

Virtual Machine - Hyper-V

number of virtual machine - hyper-v

Virtual Machine - KVM

Number of virtual machine kvm

Virtual Machine - Solaris Dynamic System Domain

number of virtual machine - solaris dynamic system domain

Virtual Machine - Solaris LDOM

number of virtual machine - solaris ldom

Virtual Machine - Solaris Zone

number of virtual machine - solaris zone

Virtual Machine - VMware

number of virtual machine - vmware

Virtual Machine - Xen

number of virtual machine - xen

Virtual Node - HPIVM

Number of virtual node hpivm

Virtual Node - Hyper-V

number of virtual node - hyper-v

Virtual Node - KVM

Number of virtual node KVM

Virtual Node - Oracle VM

number of virtual node - oracle vm

Virtual Node - RHEV

Number of virtual node rhev

Virtual Node - VMware

number of virtual node - vmware

Virtual Node - Xen

number of virtual node - xen

Web Server

Number of web server

  • Average number of serverless assets

Systems

Unit of Measure

Amazon RDS

Num Database Instances

App Services

Count number of app service container

Storage Volume

Count number of Block Storages

K8S_POD

Count number of pods

diego cell

Count the number of cells

diego brain

Count the number of brain

diego database (bbs)

Database instances

router

number of routers

tcp-router

number of routers

isolated diego cell

Count the number of cells

isolated router

number of routers

VE3_POD

Count the number of PODS

  • Overall number of managed network devices

Systems

Unit of Measure

Network - Device

number of device in the data network

Network - Firewall

number of Network Firewall

Network - Load Balancer

number of Network Load Balancer

Network - Router

number of Network Router

Network - Switch

number of Network Switch

  • Overall number of managed ports for storage systems

System

Unit of Measure

Active Ports

Number of active ports on Storage devices

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 count storage utilization-related entities.


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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