Check Schedule and Primary Source

IT Asset Management (Cloud)
In high-frequency mode where IT Asset Management is responsible for your sub-capacity calculations on IBM PVU and VPC sub-capacity licenses, there are two mandatory requirements for inventory gathering:
  • FlexNet inventory must be your primary inventory source. This means that other sources may be used to fill gaps where you have not installed the FlexNet Inventory Agent; but none of these other sources can ever overwrite the data collected in FlexNet inventory.
  • The schedule for your full inventory import and license reconciliation must run daily. It does not matter what time of day you choose to run this import and compliance calculation (the default is to run it overnight); but it must run once each day. Among other things, this validates the links between inventory devices and IBM sub-capacity licenses, which are foundational to peak consumption calculations.
The default settings are satisfactory for high-frequency mode, but it is worth a quick check to validate that no one has modified these defaults before commencing high-frequency operations.
Tip: If you are looking for where to set the reporting period and duration of data retention, go to the IT Asset Management Settings General page (Administration > IT Asset Management Settings > General) and select the Licensing tab.

To check the daily inventory schedule and source priority:

  1. In the web interface for IT Asset Management, go to the IT Asset Management Settings General page (Administration > IT Asset Management Settings > General) and select the Inventory tab.
  2. Scroll down to the Managing the processing queue for imports and reconciliation section to validate the settings for inventory import and license reconciliation:
    1. Ensure that the Frequency setting shows Daily.
    2. Check that the Schedule after field shows the earliest time that you want to start the process. You may spin up the chosen hour, or enter a time in 12-hour format, with the am/pm identifier following after a space, such as 11:30 pm.
      This time is local time at the central application server. The default suggested time is midnight PST (for the US cloud instance), or 7am UTC. If the system is idle at the nominated time, the process starts immediately; however, it may be delayed a little until other scheduled activities in the batch processor are completed.
    3. Ensure that the third field displays Every day.
      This is mandatory in high-frequency mode. Recall from Operation in High-Frequency Mode that the links from inventory devices to licenses, as well as all software inventory details, collected in the full inventory import and compliance calculations are required for retrospective checks of peak license consumption using the latest hardware inventory updates. This baseline must be recalculated daily.
    4. If you changed any values on this page, scroll down and click Save.
  3. Go to the Data Imports page (Data Collection > IT Assets Inventory Tasks > Data Imports) once again and select the Inventory Data tab.
    This page lists all known inventory sources.
  4. Locate the source named FlexNet Manager Suite (which covers FlexNet inventory), and ensure that on the right-hand end of its header row, there is a disabled button displaying Primary, marking it as the primary data source for inventory collection and data merging. If not, click the Make primary button for this row.
    You may also click in this header row to reveal more details about FlexNet inventory collection.
You may close the Data Imports page. Everything is now in place to use an initial inventory collection to seed the automatic processes for high-frequency mode, as described next.

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