Managing licenses

When you purchased IBM® UrbanCode Deploy, you received a printed version of the Processor Value Unit license, which is the type of licensing that is provided for this product.

Processor value unit (PVU) licensing provides the means for IBM to introduce pricing structures that are responsive to both the type and number of processors available to installed products. Entitlements can be full capacity or subcapacity. Under the processor value unit licensing structure, you license software based on the number of value units that are assigned to each processor core. The processor value units table, which assigns a number of value units to each supported processor type, is regularly updated to provide for the introduction of new processor technologies. Agents retrieve information about the number and type of processor on the monitored computer or partition and the table is used to determine the level of license use in terms of processor value units.

For example, if IBM UrbanCode Deploy is installed on machine A and agents on machines 2-10, the capacity of machines 2-10 must be determined (the server is not counted). To take a subcapacity example, if the server is installed on machine A, and 10 agents are installed on virtual machines on machine B that has 20 virtual machines, then the subcapacity for machine B must be determined. If the user in this example did not have subcapacity licensing, then the full capacity of machine B would be used instead.

To see your current capacity, select Current Capacity on the IBM PVU Audit Reports menu on the IBM License Metric Tool.

For more information about managing licenses for your Rational® product, see the IBM License Metric Tool page to learn about processor virtualization unit licensing at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v53r1/index.jsp

For information about setting up the Processor Value Unit license, refer to License management in IBM License Metric Tool.


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