IBM RU License Consumption Report
The IBM RU License Consumption report is an audit report that displays the consumption details of software covered by RU licenses and the license entitlements consumed against those licenses for a given reporting period.
Generating the report
- Go to the IBM RU License Consumption page ().
- If necessary, use the two date pickers labeled Reporting period (in the top left corner) to adjust the reporting period.
- 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:
- Click the edit icon in the field to open a search panel.
- 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).
- 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.
- Close the search panel. for example by again clicking the Licenses field.
- 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).
- Application
- Container cluster
- License
- Region.
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).
Column name | Description |
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Application properties | |
Application name |
The application's name, which may be:
|
Edition |
The edition of an application. These editions, for example, Lite or Pro, describe different levels or groupings of functionality. |
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. |
Container cluster | |
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). |
Cluster peak consumption | The highest level of consumption for this cluster within the reporting period that contributed towards the consumption for the license. |
License properties | |
License consumption |
The total number of points consumed for this IBM VPC
license, which is the sum of:
|
License name |
The license name may be:
|
License publisher |
The name of the software publisher (responsible for its development and distribution), as shown in the license properties. |
License version |
The version assigned to the license. This may be tracking versions of a linked application, or may an independent value. |
Region properties | |
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. |
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:
|
Region peak consumption time |
The last date (within your chosen reporting period) when the peak
value for the named region occurred. If the system is widely
stable, the peak value may be sustained for a long time, so that
this value may well be the date of your last license
reconciliation (possibly today or yesterday). If the date is
earlier than that, the current consumption is lower than the
peak for that region.
Tip: To synchronize reporting
for the three regions worldwide, dates are UTC (that is, the
date rolls over at midnight UTC).
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Downloading the archive of IBM license consumption reports
- IBM Cloud Pak license consumption report
- IBM PVU license consumption report
- IBM VPC license consumption report
- IBM MVS license consumption report
- IBM RU license consumption report
- IBM Unlicensed Installations report
- Report summaryNote: 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
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