IBM Streams 4.3.0

Tracking license usage for IBM Streams

IBM® Streams uses Resource Value Units (RVUs) to measure license usage. The RVUs are based on the number of Activated Processor Cores (CPUs) that are running applications in production. Activated Processor Cores that are used for Management Services or for ZooKeeper do not require RVU licenses.

About this task

Use the following procedure to determine license usage.

Procedure

  1. Run the streamtool getdomaincpu command to determine the number of CPUs that are used by the application resources.
    Example command and output for the domain01 domain:
    streamtool getdomaincpu -d domain01
    Resource   CPU Instance
    resource01 16  test,test2
    resource02 16  test      
    
    Total Application CPU: 32
  2. Download the Value Unit Converter Excel file from this FTP site.
  3. In the second tab of the Excel file, enter the total number of CPUs.

    Complete instructions for calculating the license usage are in the first tab of the Excel file.