Tracking license usage of your environment
The licensing model is based on the highest monthly average usage. Therefore, the main license report (yearly) shows the month with the highest average, which is then used to determine your total annual license consumption. All system entities with metrics updated in the last two days (recent activity) are included in the license report. Unassigned and Dismissed entities are also counted, but only if their metrics have been populated in the last two days. To exclude the Unassigned and Dismissed entities from the reports, you need to purge these entities. For details on how to purge, see Configuring-the-global-settings.
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:
- Make sure that the status of the License Tracking record shows ENDED.
- Click
to view 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.
License reports for server, serverless, network, and storage entities
When you run the License Tracking utility, the following reports are generated based on data from the past year for server, serverless, network, and storage entities:
- The _daily report includes the count of entities 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.
Supported entities
Review the following tables to learn about the supported server, serverless, network, and storage entities:
Overall average number of managed servers
Systems | Unit of Measure |
|---|---|
Application Server | Number of application servers |
Batch Server | Number of batch servers |
Database Server | Number of database servers |
Generic | Number of generic physical servers |
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 hosts - acropolis |
Virtual Host - AIX PowerVM | Number of virtual hosts - aix powervm |
Virtual Host - HP Integrity | Number of virtual hosts - hp integrity |
Virtual Host - HP nPar/vPar | Number of virtual hosts - hp npar/vpar |
Virtual Host - Hyper-V | Number of virtual hosts - hyper-v |
Virtual Host - KVM | Number of virtual hosts kvm |
Virtual Host - Solaris | Number of virtual hosts - solaris |
Virtual Host - VMware | Number of virtual hosts - vmware |
Virtual Host - Xen | Number of virtual hosts - xen |
Virtual Machine - Acropolis | Number of virtual machines - acropolis |
Virtual Machine - AIX LPAR | Number of virtual machines - aix lpar |
Virtual Machine - AIX Shared Processor LPAR | Number of virtual machines - aix shared processor lpar |
Virtual Machine - AIX VIO LPAR | Number of virtual machines - aix vio lpar |
Virtual Machine - AWS | Number of virtual machines - aws |
Virtual Machine - Azure | Number of virtual machines - azure |
Virtual Machine - GCP | Number of virtual machines - gcp |
Virtual Machine - HP Integrity | Number of virtual machines - hp integrity |
Virtual Machine - Hyper-V | Number of virtual machines - hyper-v |
Virtual Machine - KVM | Number of virtual machines - kvm |
Virtual Machine - Solaris Dynamic System Domain | Number of virtual machines - solaris dynamic system domain |
Virtual Machine - Solaris LDOM | Number of virtual machines - solaris ldom |
Virtual Machine - Solaris Zone | Number of virtual machines - solaris zone |
Virtual Machine - VMware | Number of virtual machines - vmware |
Virtual Machine - Xen | Number of virtual machines - xen |
Web Server | Number of web servers |
Average number of serverless assets
Systems | Unit of Measure |
|---|---|
Amazon RDS | Num Database Instances |
App Services | Count number of app service containers |
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 devices in the data network |
Network - Firewall | Number of Network Firewalls |
Network - Load Balancer | Number of Network Load Balancers |
Network - Router | Number of Network Routers |
Network - Switch | Number of Network Switches |
Overall number of managed ports for storage systems
System | Unit of Measure |
|---|---|
Active Ports | Number of active ports on Storage devices |
License reports for ETL and additional packages
When you run the License Tracking utility, the following reports are generated for the ETL usage and installed additional packages:
Aggregate daily and monthly active ETL usage
Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Name of the vendor |
| ETL module name | Name of the ETL module |
| ETL task name | Name of the configured ETL task |
| ETL task ID | Unique identifier of the ETL task |
| Execution date | Date the task has run |
| Executions count | Number of times the task has run |
| Total loaded entities | Cumulative number of entities loaded |
| AVG loaded entities | Average number of entities per task run |
| Max loaded entities (single execution) | Maximum number of entities loaded in a single run |
Overall number of installed additional packages
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Vendor | Name of the vendor |
| Name | Name of the installed package |
| Install date | Date the package was installed |
| Execution date | Date the package was updated |
| Version | Version number of the installed package |
Restrictions in the license summary
The license summary includes the following restrictions:
- The license summary includes only distributed entities (not mainframe-related) based on the managed systems, even when the “BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization for Mainframe” add-on is installed.
- It does not count storage utilization-related entities.
The license summary excludes data for custom ETLs and is limited to a maximum of 400 days of ETL data. The license summary displays ETL data only for the out-of-the-box (OOTB), Moviri, and Sentry Software ETLs.
- The license summary does not differentiate between Views and ETL packages and lists all the packages together.