License usage report details

The license usage report displays information about the licensed features of Infrastructure Management, exact number of licenses used for each Infrastructure Management feature or monitor solution.

The report is available from the Operations Console > Options > Administration tab > BMC Proactive Net section.
The report is refreshed once a day.

Note

Infrastructure Management native monitors are not counted. Existing customers can view native monitors by running the old license usage report.

The following table describes the main elements of the report. 

Field

Description

Report Date

Displays the date and time stamp of the current report run.

Host

Displays the name of the Infrastructure Management host name

License Categories

Displays all license categories, unit of measurement for each category, number of instances for each category if applicable, and comments for each license category. 
Click the number of instances link to view the details of the counted instances.

Server Monitoring and Analytics

Units of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint)

Application, Database and Middleware Monitoring and Analytics

Unit of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint ) 
Limitations: 
The host cannot be displayed for solutions with no I2D.

  • For custom category, the user must edit the custom-solutions-license-report.conf file in the pronet/conf folder:

     

    <custom-solutions>
       <mo-types solution-name="My custom solution">P_PATROL_MSC_MAIN,_PATROL_MSC_SEC</mo-types>
       <mo-types solution-name="Another custom solution">P_PATROL_ACS</mo-types>
    </custom-solutions

    mo-types element:

  • Solution name - The name of your solution
  • Element value - List of monitor types representing devices in the solution, separated by comma 

Cloud Resource Monitoring

Units of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint).

Group Tree view

Units of measurement: per instance. 
Counts a single instance of the Infrastructure Management Performance Management server where the hyperbolic tree is used for group or SLO views.

Sentry Hardware Monitoring and Analytics

Units of measurement: per managed asset

Sentry Storage Monitoring and Analytics

Units of measurement: per managed asset

Sentry Microsoft Applications Monitoring and Analytics

Units of measurement: per managed asset

Sentry Monitoring Studio

Units of measurement: per managed asset

Synthetic Transaction Monitoring and Analytics

Units of measurement: Per instance (execution server) 
Counts instances of BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time execution server.

Application Diagnostics

Units of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint) 
Counts the number of OS instances that are monitored by an AppSight black box or run an application server that is monitored by an AppSight black box. 
Limitations:

  • Application Diagnostics count can be duplicated when two application servers are deployed on a single host which does not have a host name and each application server is configured to listen on a different IP (assuming the host has more than one IP), then the host is counted twice.
  • If a server is de-provisioned but the AppSight Repository is not updated, the report keeps reporting this server as monitored. 

Custom Monitoring and Analytics

Units of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint). 
For custom solutions, you must edit the custom-solutions-license-report.conf file in the pronet/conf folder:

<custom-solutions>
   <mo-types solution-name="My custom solution">P_PATROL_MSC_MAIN,_PATROL_MSC_SEC</mo-types>
   <mo-types solution-name="Another custom solution">P_PATROL_ACS</mo-types>
</custom-solutions

mo-types element:

  • Solution name - The name of your solution
  • Element value - List of monitor types representing devices in the solution, separated by comma 

Third-party and Custom Analytics Add-on

Units of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint). 
Counts the number of OS instances monitored by the following adapters:

  • Adapter for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
  • Adapter for HP OpenView
  • Adapter for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 

Event and Impact Management

Units of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint). 
Counts servers where the host ID is provided in the event. In most cases this does not count any third-party event management servers.

 

Unique Servers

Units of measurement: per managed asset (server endpoint). 
Counts the number of unique OS instances within the following categories:

  • Server monitoring and analytics
  • Application, database and middleware monitoring and analytics
  • Event and impact management
  • Application diagnostics 

Export Options

Select an export type for the report:

  • PDF
  • Consolidated License Report - available in CSV and XML format

 

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