Reported license metrics
BigFix Inventory reports utilization for a number of license metrics for IBM and non-IBM products. It also shows products that are assigned any BigFix metric even if calculating utilization is not yet supported for this metric. It gives you an overview of all IBM metrics for which you should have licenses.
Metrics for which utilization is calculated
License metric utilization is calculated for products that are assigned to one of the metrics that are listed in the following table. Their utilization is shown on the All Metrics report. For more information, see: License metric utilization.
For every of these metrics, BigFix Inventory calculates the so-called high-water mark. For more information, see: High-water mark.
To learn about custom metric requirements of all the All Metrics panel, refer to the conditions mentioned here.
Vendor | Product | Metric | Description |
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IBM |
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FlexPoint | PVU and RVU software that is assigned to a FlexPoint bundle, must be licensed based on subcapacity rules. For more information, see: IBM FlexPoints. |
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Install Instances | A unit of measure that is based on the number of installed instances regardless of whether the instances are installed on one or many computers. For example, when three instances of a product are installed on one computer, the metric quantity is 3. | |
Processor Value Unit (PVU) | For more information, see: IBM Processor value unit (PVU). | ||
Resource Value Unit (RVU MAPC) | For more information, see: IBM Resource value unit (RVU MAPC). | ||
Virtual Processor Core (VPC) | For more information, see: IBM Virtual processor core (VPC). | ||
Selected IBM Products | Other IBM metrics | For more information, see: Other IBM metrics. | |
SAP |
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Engines, Users | For more information, see: Discovering and measuring SAP
and Raw utilization of license metrics. Note: Information about SAP
metrics is shown only on the Resource Utilization report. |
Oracle |
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Oracle Processor Core | For more information, see: Oracle Processor Core. |
Oracle Concurrent Sessions, Oracle User Sessions | For more information, see: Extended discovery of Oracle Database and Raw utilization of license metrics. Note: Information about Oracle
Database concurrent user sessions metrics is shown only on the Resource Utilization
report. |
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Install Seats | A unit of measure that is based on the number of computers on which the software is installed. For example, when three instances of a product are installed on one computer, the metric quantity is 1. | |
Microsoft |
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Microsoft Windows Server Physical Processor Core (default metric for the products) | These metrcis are used for Microsoft Processor
Core licenses. For more information, refer to Managing Microsoft
Processor Core licenses. Note: It is recommended to use these metrics with BigFix
Inventory version 10.0.14. |
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Microsoft Windows Server Standard Physical Processor Core (default metric for the products) | ||
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Microsoft SQL Server Physical Processor Cores (default metric for the products) | ||
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Microsoft Single Physical Processor | For more information, see: Microsoft Single and Dual Physical Processor. | |
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Microsoft Dual Physical Processor | ||
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Microsoft SQL Server Physical Processor Core |
For more information, see 10.0.12 Managing Microsoft Processor Core licenses. | |
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Microsoft SQL Server Virtual Processor Core |
For more information, see 10.0.12 Managing Microsoft Processor Core licenses. | |
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<deprecated>Microsoft Physical Core with SA | For more information, see: <deprecated> Microsoft Physical Core with SA. Notice: The metric has
been deprecated.
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<deprecated> Microsoft Virtual Core with SA | For more information, see: <deprecated> Microsoft Virtual Core with SA. Notice: The metric has been
deprecated. |
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Registered User | For more information, see: Registered User. | |
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Install Seats | A unit of measure that is based on the number of computers on which the software is installed. For example, when three instances of a product are installed on one computer, the metric quantity is 1. | |
VMware |
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VMware sockets | For more information, see: Measuring license metric utilization of VMware products and
Raw utilization of license metrics. Note: Information about VMware
metrics is shown only on the Resource Utilization report. |
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Install Seats | A unit of measure that is based on the number of computers on which the software is installed. For example, when three instances of a product are installed on one computer, the metric quantity is 1. | |
Adobe |
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Registered User | For more information, see: Registered User. |
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Install Seats | A unit of measure that is based on the number of computers on which the software is installed. For example, when three instances of a product are installed on one computer, the metric quantity is 1. | |
Other |
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Install Seats | A unit of measure that is based on the number of computers on which the software is installed. For example, when three instances of a product are installed on one computer, the metric quantity is 1. |