Commercial applications on containers

[rudi_bissels]

Today I discovered for the first time commercial applications on containers as shown in FNMS.

The container is already stopped but I am curious if license consumption is counted for this based on the container host.

Anyone ideas on this?

Cheers,

Rudi Bissels

[dbeckner]

@rudi_bissels This release note is old; however, I have not seen anything as of FNMS 2022 R2 that shows consumption of licenses in containers. This release notes specifically calls out that applications installed in containers will not consume a license. This is planned for a future release though it does not state which release that will be delivered in.

FNMS Features By Release - 2020 R1 - Docker Container Discovery and Inventory 

Hope this helps,

Dan

[ChrisG]

For commercial IBM software, the IBM License Service (ILS) will generally be running in the containerized environment. The Flexera Kubernetes agent collects IBM product usage data from ILS and provides a unified license position view that covering IBM software running in containers or traditional infrastructure.