IBM RU License Current Consumption Report
Generating the Report
To generate the report, perform the following steps.
To generate an IBM RU License Current Consumption report:
| 1. | Go to the IBM RU License Current Consumption report (Reporting > License Reports > IBM RU License Current Consumption). |
| 2. | The report controls include a search field labeled Licenses, which for audit reporting defaults to All IBM RU non Cloud Pak licenses. For special purposes, to narrow your report to one or several candidate licenses: |
| 3. | Click the edit icon in the field to open a search panel. |
| 4. | Type all or part of a license name in the License search field, and click Search. Results display in the list at the bottom of the panel (across multiple pages, if your search returned a large number of licenses). |
| 5. | Select the check box to the left of the license (or licenses) to include in the report. Your current selection(s) are displayed in the Selected license box, and also in the Licenses text box. |
| 6. | Close the search panel. |
| 7. | Click Run report. |
Reading the Report
The following columns are available. By default, all available columns are displayed in the report (although for special purposes, you may move any columns that you do not want included into the column chooser).
To itemize consumption, this report combines properties of:
| • | Application Properties |
| • | Container cluster Properties |
| • | License Properties |
| • | Region Properties |
To clarify the report, the properties are grouped under headers that identify their underlying database object. Similarly, this list of properties is grouped first by the database object (alphabetically ordered), and then the related properties (also sorted alphabetically).
The following application properties are displayed.
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Property |
Description |
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Application name |
The application's name, which may be:
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Edition |
The edition of an application. These editions, for example, Lite or Pro, describe different levels or groupings of functionality. |
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Primary |
Describes whether this product is primary for this license. The default value of this field is Yes for a single-product license. In case of licensing product bundles, you can select one or more primary product(s) for this license. When the application displays No in this column, the installation does not consume any points, as its licensing is covered by the primary product(s) on the same license. |
The following container cluster properties are displayed.
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Property |
Description |
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Cluster name |
The name given to the Kubernetes cluster of nodes (working computers, either physical or virtual). This name is not guaranteed to be unique (in facts, tends to repeat default values, such as mk). |
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Cluster consumption |
The current consumption for this cluster as calculated during the most recent full inventory import and license reconciliation that contributed towards the consumption for the license. |
The following license properties are displayed.
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Property |
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License consumption |
The total number of points consumed for this IBM RU license, which is the sum of:
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License name |
The license name may be:
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License publisher |
The name of the software publisher (responsible for its development and distribution), as shown in the license properties. |
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License version |
The version assigned to the license. This may be tracking versions of a linked application, or may an independent value. |
The following region properties are displayed.
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Description |
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Region consumption |
The peak consumption (the highest number of points consumed on an individual day) for the IBM region identified in this row, being the region to which consumption by the host server contributes. |
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Region name |
Shows, for each device, the region in which its license points are included (or, if the device is not yet assigned to a region, Unknown region is displayed, and this should be corrected as soon as practical). This is one of the three regions of the world that IBM makes mandatory for reporting points consumption on IBM sub- capacity licenses. Tip:In any list of inventory devices, a virtual machine shows the IBM region linked to its host server. This is because an IBM sub-capacity license licenses the host, and therefore the total consumption for the host is rolled up into the IBM region that is linked to the host (through its owning location). This total consumption includes both software installed on the host and/or on any guest VMs running on that host. (In contrast, if the host for the VM is unknown, the VM displays its own properties, so that in this case, the location and its mapped IBM region are those from the orphan VM.) Values may be:
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