<h2>FAQ - CMP - Node licensing and calculation</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"><div><h3>Description</h3><style type="text/css"><!-- div.margin { padding: 10px 40px 40px 30px; } table.tocTable { border: 1px solid; border-color: #e0e0e0; background-color: #fff; } .title { color: #d1232b; font-weight: normal; font-size: 28px; } h1 { color: #d1232b; font-weight: normal; font-size: 21px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; } h2 { color: #646464; font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; } h3 { color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; } h4 { color: #666666; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; } h5 { color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; } h6 { color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-size:14px; } ul, ol { margin-left: 0; list-style-position: outside; } --></style> <div class="margin"> <h1>Overview</h1> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">This article will demonstrate the questions regarding Node Licensing and calculation with Cloud Management Platform (CMP)</p> <h1>Information</h1> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Question 1</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;">Could you please confirm if Hardware type table "cmdb_ci_compute_template" will be counted under node licenses? </p> <p style="padding-left: 20px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;"><strong>Answer</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;">CMP do not consider the Hardware type that is in "cmdb_ci_compute_template" table during license calculations. It is true that CMP uses Hardware type table to map a VM size attribute from Azure to actual CPU count and Memory (MB), but during license calculations, it is not considered as a node. </p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;">The table "cmdb_ci_compute_template" is used to map the VM size attribute from Azure to actual CPU count and Memory (MB) in numbers. </p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Question 2</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;">What constitutes "Cloud Management - Nodes" in ServiceNow CMP?</p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;">There are several Cloud specific CMDB Classes in the system that got activated as part of the Cloud Management application and does every CI in those classes gets counted as 1 node? </p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;"><strong>Answer</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;">The nodes that are been provisioned or discovered will be written back to cmdb_ci_vm_instance. The nodes that are in cmdb_ci_vm_instance are considered as Cloud Management - Nodes. The nodes in these tables get counted as license count</p> <p style="padding-left: 20px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Question 3</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 80px;">Could you please confirm which all states of the Virtual Machine would be considered for Licensing cost?</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;"><strong>Answer</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 70px;">States of a virtual machine would be considered for licensing cost: <strong>on, off, paused, starting, stopping, pausing </strong></p> <p style="padding-left: 20px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Question 4</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 80px;">Is there a mechanism or a script controls the calculation? </p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;"><strong>Answer</strong></span>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 70px;">Script to get counts for CMP provisioned VMs. The counts are for both CMPv1 and CMPv2 plugin depending on which plugin the customer is using is "CMP_Provisioned_VM_Count" </p> <pre style="padding-left: 70px;">https://<Insancename>.service-now.com/usageanalytics_count_cfg.do?sys_id=cb5bcd58db8c27003fcbe1d3ca9619c5&sysparm_view=&sysparm_record_target=usageanalytics_count_cfg&sysparm_record_row=3&sysparm_record_list=nameCONTAINScmp%5EORDERBYname&sysparm_record_rows=3</pre> <p style="padding-left: 70px;"> </p> </div></div></div>