Tracking license usage of your environment
When you run the utility, the reports are generated based on data from the past year and include the following:
- The _daily report includes the count of systems whose metrics have been populated in the last two days.
- The _monthly report includes the average entity count for each month.
- The _details report provides a snapshot of entities that are actively running (metrics populated in the last two days) at the time the report is generated.
- The main license report (yearly) displays the count for a month with the highest average, which is used to calculate yearly consumption.
License summary
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 - GCP | number of virtual machine - gcp |
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 |
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
- In Administration > SYSTEM > Maintenance, select the Maintenance Activities tab.
- In the row for the License Tracking utility, click
.
The Overview page of Run: License Tracking is displayed. - Click Next.
The Hosts selection page of Run: License Tracking is displayed. - 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. - To access the report:
- Ensure that the status of the License Tracking record shows ENDED.
- Click
to view the the deployment log. In the Deployment logs for the License Tracking utility, click 
. to download a zip file that contains the license.xml and license.html summary files and other detailed report files.