How to take care of additional consumption?

[markus_gysel]

Hello Does someone have a hint on how to include additional consumption which can't be automatically counted e.g. out of a non-standard or affiliate environment? Example: 1000 perpetual licenses 820 are (automatically) captured and listed under consumption 80 licenses are manually reported to be consumed by an affiliate company Is there a way to do it without a license split (no additional line item in All Licenses)? Thanks

[mfranz]

Hi Markus,

I tested a Business Import to allocate a device to a device license with "NumberAllocated" = 10.

Then after a Reconcile the device consumes 10 entitlements.

Things to consider:

• This approach might not work with all license types.
• This might also not work in all FNMS releases, I tested on 2017 R3.
• It is by no means supported by Flexera.
• It is not available via WebUI, you'll need the Business Import to set the values.

Best regards,

Markward

[tivens]

Is there a specific license metric/type that you wish to apply this for or is this a more general question?

An option (if relevant for your metric requirements) could be to use an IBM Authorized User license type. The license type counts user installations like a 'User' license, but the IBM Authorized User license type also offers the option to add additional bulk (normal) user counts on the Consumption tab of the license.

[Kevin_Hou]

Hello Mark

If automatic inventory can't bring calculate the additional consumption for you , then a manual process is needed. Most common solution is use business adapter to assign allocation (lic -> device or lic -> User) based on your report list (raw data list of consumption like document)

HTH

Cheers

Kevin

[markus_gysel]

Thank you all for your thoughts and ideas. We will have a closer look if a Business Adapter could do the job an add such counts to typical license models from Microsoft and other Vendors. Regards