Tracking and reporting entitlements with IBM License Metric Tool and IBM Licensing Service

IBM License Metric Tool

With License Metric Tool, you can maintain an up-to-date inventory of software assets that are installed in your infrastructure, gather information about your hardware, and ensure license compliance of your enterprise. You can monitor consumption of PVU, VPC, and RVU MAPC metrics by IBM products under full and subcapacity licensing terms.

• Registering IBM software products with IBM License Metric Tool
  • Complying with licensing requirements
• Ensuring IBM software products are correctly tagged and annotated
  • Adding an IBM product to the software catalog
  • Assigning components to products and Cloud Paks
  • Managing software inventory and metric utilization
• Generating reports
  • How to control and report IBM licenses

IBM Licensing Service

• Setting up IBM Licensing Service
  • Viewing and tracking license usage
  • Configuring and verifying completeness of License Service
• Generating reports
  • Viewing and tracking license usage