Software Asset Management publisher pack for IBM

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Software Asset Management Publisher Pack for IBM IT Asset Management

    The Software Asset Management publisher pack for IBM enables tracking and optimization of licenses for IBM software products, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters. To utilize this pack, activate the Software Asset Management Professional for IBM plugin.

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    Key Features

    • Supports multiple IBM license metrics, including Authorized User, Per Device, and Processor Value Unit (PVU).
    • Eliminates the need for the legacy IBM PVU Process Pack for license tracking and management.
    • Integrates with various discovery tools, such as IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) and ServiceNow Discovery, for automatic reconciliation of software products against entitlements.
    • Provides compliance analysis through the Software Publisher Analytics dashboard and license usage information in the Software Asset Workspace.

    Key Outcomes

    By implementing this publisher pack, customers can accurately track their IBM software licenses, optimize their compliance positions, and streamline license management processes, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced risk of compliance violations. Integration with authorized SAM providers further enhances management capabilities, especially in complex environments.

    Use the Software Asset Management publisher pack for IBM to track and optimize licensing for your IBM software products. You can also use the publisher pack to track and optimize licensing for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters products.

    To use the IBM publisher pack, activate the Software Asset Management Professional for IBM (com.sn_samp_ibm) plugin.

    The IBM publisher pack supports the following license metrics:
    • Authorized User
    • Authorized User Value Unit
    • Employee User Value Unit
    • External User Value Unit
    • Per Device
    • Per Named User
    • Per Processor
    • Per User
    • Processor Value Unit (PVU)
    • Resource Value Unit (RVU)
    • Virtual Processor Core
    For more information on the supported IBM license metrics, see Software license metrics.
    Important:
    The IBM publisher pack is available as part of the Software Asset Management Professional (com.snc.samp) plugin. The publisher pack includes all capabilities that are required for tracking and managing both full capacity and sub-capacity PVU and RVU licenses for your IBM products. It does not require the legacy IBM PVU Process Pack to track and manage IBM PVU licenses. See iBM PVU Process Pack for more information on the legacy process pack.

    When you run a discovery using a discovery tool such as the ServiceNow Discovery application, the discovery tool locates the IBM software installations in your environment and then imports the associated data into your ServiceNow instance. The Software Asset Management application compares this data against your IBM software entitlements to automatically reconcile your IBM software products, including products in complex server licensing scenarios.

    You can integrate with different discovery tools based on the license metric that you are using for reconciliation:
    • To reconcile your IBM software products using the Processor Value Unit (PVU) or Resource Value Unit (RVU) license metrics, you can integrate with the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or BigFix Inventory discovery tool when using either version 1 or version 2 of the ILMT or BigFix Inventory integration APIs. You can also integrate with the ServiceNow Discovery application when it is used in conjunction with the IBM License Compliance for Software Asset Management application.
    • To reconcile your IBM software products using the Virtual Processor Core (VPC) license metric, you can integrate with the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or BigFix Inventory discovery tool when using version 2 of the ILMT or BigFix Inventory integration APIs. You can also integrate with the ServiceNow Discovery application when it is used in conjunction with the IBM License Compliance for Software Asset Management application.
    • To reconcile your IBM software products using any other supported license metric, including user-based license metrics like Authorized User and External User Value Unit, you can integrate with any other discovery tool.

    For more information on ILMT and BigFix Inventory integrations, see IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) and BigFix Inventory integrations. For more information on the IBM License Compliance for Software Asset Management application, see IBM Authorized SAM Provider (IASP) integrations. For more information on the ServiceNow Discovery application, see Data collected by ITOM Visibility.