Reporting to IBM

IT Asset Management (Cloud)

IT Asset Management provides a digitally-signed report package that is ready for you to submit to IBM for audits. The package includes the following reports:

• IBM Cloud Pak consumption report
• IBM PVU license consumption report
• IBM VPC license consumption report
• IBM Unlicensed Installations report

This package can be used as a trusted source for audit as the data contained in the package can be validated for authenticity. It meets IBM's reporting requirements and is accepted by IBM.

Tip: Although some of the reports are very similar to those from ILMT, there are acceptable presentation differences between ILMT and IT Asset Management reports of sub-capacity licensing. IBM's sub-capacity reporting requirements do not require exact copies of the ILMT reports (nor is IT Asset Management intended to copy ILMT).

Important: Reports show data based on the latest full license reconciliation calculations. In fact, if for some reason you have not yet run a full (overnight) license reconciliation since switching to high-frequency PVU mode for IT Asset Management, reports like IBM PVU License Consumption are unable to display any data.

To download the digitally-signed report package:

1. Go to any of the following pages:
   • IBM Cloud Pak License Consumption (Reporting > License Reports > IBM Cloud Pak License Consumption)
   • IBM PVU License Consumption (Reporting > License Reports > IBM PVU License Consumption)
   • IBM VPC License Consumption (Reporting > License Reports > IBM VPC License Consumption)
   • IBM Unlicensed Installations (Reporting > License Reports > Unlicensed Installations)
2. Select the reporting period.
3. Click Download the IBM audit report.
   The downloaded package contains the following data:

   • IBM Cloud Pak license consumption report
   • IBM PVU license consumption report
   • IBM VPC license consumption report
   • IBM Unlicensed Installations report
   • Report summary
     Note: The report summary contains the generation date, user account that generated the report, period of the report, and statistics for the out-of-date inventory devices.
   • Checksums
   • Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) file
   • RSA signature file

Beyond these typical sub-capacity reporting requirements, your enterprise might have additional reporting requirements defined by your IBM agreements, such as License Management Option (LMO) reports, which are not addressed in this topic.