I'm working on setting up FNM to calculate IBM sub-capacity licensing and I was hoping to get a better understanding of what's happening. I've looked at the documentation but I still have questions.  Here's a little background. I have VMs that are running WebSphere MQ PVU and the VMs are clustered. FNM agents are running on the host machines. I checked the Enable frequent hardware scanning under Inventory Settings. I set the Use Rights on Virtual Machines and Hosts to Use sub-capacity license calculations where available in the license properties. I performed a reconcile on just the IBM publisher and one ran over night. We have FNMS 2019 R2 installed and will upgrade to 2021 R1 in the next couple months.  Do I need to set VM host affinity?  I would think that doesn't matter if we get the hardware properties from the VM. This might be an IBM requirement since we are getting rid of ILMT. When I set the PVU hardware scanning under Inventory Scanning, do I need to update the FNM agent on those host machines or is the update sent automatically? Are the IBM regions automatically created? I don't see where I can create them in the FNM UI. Best Regards, Steve B ... View more

I would like to configure IBM sub-capacity licensing in FNM for IBM WebSphere MQ PVU. The documentation says to set IBM PVU scanning in FNM settings and deploy the FlexNet agent to the Hyper-V servers.  FNM is calculating PVU consumption based on the host hardware and not the VM itself so we are overconsuming our PVU license.  Is it possible to configure FNM so it calculates consumption of the VM and not the host without setting affinity rules? The VMs are clustered move from server to server. Thanks, Steve   ... View more