Oracle VM Device and Infrastructure Inventory

With IT Asset Management for Oracle product, IT Asset Management can generate a license compliance position for

the applications installed on virtual machines that are created and managed by Oracle VM products. To generate a complete and accurate license compliance position for some publishers, IT Asset Management should also collect Oracle VM infrastructure inventory (clusters, pools, hosts, and virtual machines), in addition to the normal hardware and software inventory of virtual machines. To collect Oracle VM inventory, FNMS uses the following different components and processes:

Standard Components and Processes to Oracle VM Inventory

Inventory Type	Component Used	Process used	Purpose
Device inventory	ndtrack, either installed locally or run remotely from the appropriate inventory beacon.	The inventory collection component (ndtrack) collects the software and hardware inventory of all Oracle VM virtual machines within the targeted subnet. For this, you need to create a discovery and inventory rule with the following settings: • Include the subnet containing the virtual machines in the target definition • Select the General hardware and software inventory option in the action definition. For more information, see the topics under Creating an Action. The inventory device records are visible on the Virtual Devices and Clusters (you can filter by VM type = Oracle VM), and other views under Inventory.	The hardware and software inventory used for normal license compliance calculations.
Oracle VM infrastructure inventory	Inventory beacon	The inventory beacon connects to the Oracle VM Manager to gather VM hierarchy, and to each Oracle VM Server to gather processor-specific information (such as CPU affinity). The complete hierarchy is displayed on the Virtual Devices and Clusters page. You need the following settings: • Select the following options in the action definition: • Discover Oracle VM infrastructure  • Gather Oracle VM infrastructure inventory  • Configure the Password Store on the appropriate inventory beacon. See Using Password Manager When Collecting Specialized Inventory.	The cluster hierarchy information is useful in calculating the license position for applications from some specific software vendors. For example, a publisher may require you to buy an application license for the whole cluster if the application is installed on a virtual machine that is dynamically moved between the hosts of an Oracle VM cluster. Also, the processor-specific properties (such as CPU affinity) are required for calculating the compliance position for Oracle processor licenses.