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Setting up a per CPU sum based license

In the Mid Tier interface, the per CPU sum based license type is based on the sum of all unique CPUs associated with products that are associated with the license certificate.


The following figure shows how to set up a per CPU sum based license:

Setting up a per core constant based license.png

To set up a per CPU sum based license and calculate compliance

  1. In Mid Tier, on the IT Home page, select Product Catalog > Product Catalog console.
  2. Create a new Product Catalog entry for Product Type as Software and CI Type = Product.
  3. Click the Model/Version tab and enter values for the Model/Version and Market Version, and set Requires Contract to Yes.
  4. On the IT Home page, select Product Catalog > Product Catalog console and create a new product catalog entry for Product Type as Hardware and CI Type as Processor.
  5. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI and create a Computer System CI.
  6. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI and create a Processor CI. 
  7. Complete the product categorization using the values in Step 4 as well as specific fields on the Specification tab (Processor Family- optional, Processor Type - required).
  8. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI and search for the recently created Computer System CI (step 5). 
  9. On the Computer System CI Relationships tab, relate both the Product and Processor CIs as components or hosted system components.
  10. On the IT Home page, select Contract Management > Contract Console and create a new Software Contract for your software. 
  11. On the newly created software contract create a license certificate for your software. Use the product categorization from step 2. Select the license type as CPU Sum Based.
  12. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > SAM console > Manage License Jobs.
  13. Create a new license job for the CPU Sum Based license.

  14. Run the license job.
    The Product CI is connected.
    The number deployed on the certificate will sum the unique processors related to computer systems where the product is installed.

    Example

     Two processors are related to a Computer System CI where the software is installed. The number deployed will be 2.

    CPU1 = 1

    CPU2 = 1

    1 + 1 = 2

 

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