Context

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•   Asset Management
  •   Monitor Audit and Reconcile Asset Records

Details

The IBM® Tivoli® License Compliance Manager (TLM) is used to manage software license compliance. Software inventory and use information is automatically generated by Tivoli License Compliance Manager for distributed data. License (and optionally contract) data must be imported or entered into TLM before software use occurs for this activity to be executed.

Combining the inventory and use data with the agreement, licensing and financial information allows you to view products that have no license and/or to compare license metrics to actual use.

For example, the Review License Compliance Data view shows the quantity of licenses available and the quota used for each license at the specified time. It also provides a high-water mark value, indicating the highest level of use during a selected period leading up to the specified time. This helps you to identify out of compliance situations and under use of licenses.

Select a license in the Compliance of licenses table, and click View Product Use to view details of the product use for that license.

The unlicensed use report provides a view of the products that were being used at a specified time when no valid license was available. This includes products for which the quantity of licenses used exceeds the quantity available and products for which there is no available license.

The license use trend analysis report provides a graphical representation of trends in the use of a selected license during a specified period.

This chart plots licenses used against time, over the period you specified. Line format chart type is available too.

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