License usage view - Product Documentation: Vancouver

License usage view

Use the license usage view as a single plane to understand the license position of all software products, remediate non compliance, view reconciliation results, view or add removal candidates and view Software Asset Management related reports.

The License usage view lets your organizations license usage trends and helps forecast the needs of your organization by trending the number of licenses required against the number of licenses purchased. Stay in compliance by purchasing additional rights before software consumption surpasses the number of rights owned.

You can access the License usage view by navigating to Software asset > Software Asset Workspace > License usage .

Figure 1. License usage view

Use the License usage view to: pin publishers (user specific, saved). view key metrics for the publishers, such as over-licensed amount and true-up cost. filter by domain and compliance status. sort by True-up cost, over-licensed amount, and potential savings. run reconciliation and view its results. be informed about the last reconciliation run. view and add new removal candidates. view and export reports.

Publishers tab View the compliance status of all your publishers. Each publisher card displays its color coded compliance status along with the percentage of compliance. As the products get compliant, the color changes to green. compliant: Indicated by the color green. All products under the publisher are complaint. partially compliant: Indicated by the color orange. At least one product under the publisher is not compliant. non-compliant: Indicated by the color red. All products under the publisher are not compliant.

The pinned publishers are displayed followed by unpinned publishers. To view the compliance of a few selected publishers, you can pin publishers for easy access. Select the right most bookmark icon on a card to pin it. As soon as you pin a publisher card, it moves from the Unpinned publishers section to the Pinned publishers section. Note: The list of pinned publishers is saved on a per-user basis. The pinned publishers are stored in the Pinned User Publisher [samp_pinned_user_publisher] table.

To view compliance details about a specific publisher, select a publisher card. A summary of that publisher's compliance appears in the publisher details page.

Figure 2. Publisher details page

The navigation tree for the publisher appears on the left-hand side of the page. A brief summary of metrics appears along with related lists pertaining to that publisher. For details on the metrics, refer to the Publisher metrics table. For details on the related lists, refer to License usage publisher fields in workspace .

The navigation tree lets you drill down to a specific product, software model, or license metric to view the calculation and compliance information from the latest reconciliation results.

The navigation tree also lets you: filter products (active filtering, including collapsed items). expand and collapse tree links.

By default, the navigation tree is collapsed.

Table 1. Publisher metrics Report Source Description True-up cost Product Result [samp_product_result] Estimated cost of remediating unlicensed installations based on the lowest number of rights needed (rights needed multiplied by average price per right from entitlements). The lowest cost from Purchase Rights remediation options.

Savings Removal Candidate [samp_sw_reclamation_candidate]

Cost saved if removal candidates are reclaimed. Software model statistics Software Model [cmdb_software_product_model] Current status of the software models with regards to discovery maps, entitlements, and downgrade rights. Progress indicators Software Installation [cmdb_sam_sw_install]

Software Subscription [samp_sw_subscription]

Oracle Options [samp_oracle_options].

SAP Engine Usage [samp_sap_sw_client_access]

SAP Users [samp_sap_system_user]

Requested Item [sc_req_item]

Removal Candidate [samp_sw_reclamation_candidate]

Software Installation [cmdb_sam_sw_install]

Indicates the compliance progress already made for this publisher. The progress indicators are different for each publisher.

Reconciliation tab You can view all the historical reconciliation results in this tab. Results of the latest reconciliation run are shown in the License usage view. For more details, see Software reconciliation for compliance .

Removal candidates tab View a list of all removal candidates in this tab. Removal candidates are used to reclaim software installations that are not being used.

You can also create new removal candidates. For more details, see Add a software removal candidate in workspace .

Reports tab You can create, view, and run reports from this tab. All the following base system reports are available in this tab: Software product lifecycle report. Software license compliance position. Oracle infrastructure report. Software models with deactivated discovery maps. Oracle DB server Deployments per Agreement.

To create and manage reports, see Create and manage reports in workspace .