Activating the license counting process
How to activate the license counting process.
About this task
Currently, the association of the clients to one or more products is manually performed by the BigFix Inventory (*) user.
To enable the BigFix Inventory scanner to automatically provide this association, the
administrator can activate the following license counting process by:
- Optionally categorizing the metric of the clients, as described in Categorizing the clients.
- Distributing the licensed products information to the clients, as described in Distributing the site mapping file.
- Generating the correct license tags on each client, as described in Generating the license tags.
After performing all these actions, it is required to run a software scan, then import the software data to see the results displayed in BigFix Inventory.
Note: (*) The concepts and procedures described in the following sections apply to both BigFix
Inventory and IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT).
The following diagram shows the license counting process.