Creating snapshots of license metric utilization for auditing purposes
Create the snapshot of the All Metrics report, and store it as a record of license metric utilization in your enterprise over a particular period. You can create the snapshot with any frequency that is suitable for your purposes. However, it is a good practice to create the snapshot every quarter. You can also regenerate the snapshot at any time as the historical data is always editable.
Before you begin
- View License Metric to open the All Metrics report.
- View Audit Trail if you want the snapshot to contain the audit trail file.
About this task
- Software scan data is collected from the entire environment. To verify whether there are any problems, check the Scan Health widget on the Overview panel.
- Capacity data is collected from the entire environment. To verify whether there are any problems, check the IBM Capacity Data Completeness widget on the Overview panel.
- Imports of data are successful. To check the import history, go to .
- Software is correctly classified. For more information, see: Software classification.
Procedure
- Log in to BigFix Inventory, and go to .
- Optional:
To configure the period for which you want to create the snapshot, hover over the
Manage Report View icon , and click Configure View. Then, select the time range.
- If you specify a period from a particular date until the last successful import, the reports contain entries from that date starting at 00:00:00.
- If you specify a period from a date to a date, the reports contain entries from the first date starting at 00:00:00 to the second date ending at 23:59:59.
- Optional:
To limit the number of products that are included in the snapshot, specify the name of the
product in the Filters section.
- To create the snapshot, in the top navigation bar, click Audit Snapshot.
- Optional: Provide a comment in the comment text field.
- Optional:
To add an attachment, click Browse and select the file that you want to
attach to the snapshot.
- Click Generate.