Setting up a per instance license

In the Mid Tier interface, the per instance license type is a simple count of the Software CIs in your organization.

The following figure shows how to set up a per instance license:

To set up a per instance 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 as 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 Asset Management > Manage CI, and create a new Product CI using the product catalog entry from step 2.
5. On the IT Home page select Asset Management > Manage CI and create a new Computer System CI.
6. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI, search for the Product CI created in step 4, and relate it to the Computer System CI (Step 5) as a component or hosted system component.
7. On the IT Home page, select Contract Management > Contract Console and create a software contract for your software. On the newly created software contract create a license certificate. Use the product categorization from step 1.
   Select License type Per Instance.
8. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > SAM console> Manage License Jobs.
9. Create a license job for the Per Instance license.

10. Run the license job.
    The Per Instance license type only counts licenses deployed when the Product CI is related as a component or hosted system component to either, a Computer System CI, a Mainframe CI, or a Printer CI.

    Important

    The License Engine searches AST:SearchFromBase_Relationship which looks for child records related to CIs in BaseElement such as a ComputerSystem. For orphan products, if the product is not installed on any machine, the product is connected to the license, but it is not counted as deployed.

    This is as designed. A product without a computer relationship can also be manually related to a certificate and this too will not be counted for deployed numbers.