SurabhiT
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

In today’s dynamic digital landscape, cloud infrastructure has become the backbone of modern enterprise operations. Organizations are leveraging cloud services to drive innovation, agility, and scalability, enabling rapid deployment of new applications and services to stay competitive. However, while cloud adoption offers these significant advantages, it also presents unique challenges—particularly when it comes to estimating licensable cloud resources.

 

Introducing ITOM Cloud License Estimator - This powerful tool transforms the complex, time-consuming process of estimating the counts of cloud resources that are eligible for licensing into a simple process that doesn’t require you to setup mid, configuring service accounts and scheduling discovery runs or populating extensive data in CMDB. 
CLE offers significant benefits-

  • Deal Estimation - CLE acts as a saviour in times when you need to count the estimated licensable cloud resources for deals.
  • Scaling Preparation -For scaling preparation, CLE helps you with estimated licensable counts of cloud resources, which is essential for proper planning, so, you don't scale your cloud resources beyond your needs.
  • Regular Monitoring - CLE helps to keep track of your licensable cloud resources by giving a detailed report of licensable cloud resources which in turn helps you to make informed decisions.
  • Optimization Decisions - By giving estimated counts of cloud resources, CLE empowers informed decisions about cloud resource optimization, leading to cost savings.


What does ITOM Cloud License Estimator do? 

CLE simplifies the process of estimating counts of cloud resources that are eligible for licensing.  

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CLE validates your cloud account credentials, retrieves your cloud resource counts by making API calls, and then applies the license counting rules of our technology workflows cloud apps like ITOM Visibility and Cloud Cost Management and generates a pdf report for estimated counts of cloud resources that are eligible for licensing.  

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Well, once you have created the configuration using your cloud account details and ran the license estimator on it you can come back again and run the license estimator on the already created configuration or edit the existing configuration and get your pdf report generated.

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The pdf report has dedicated tables for ITOM licensable cloud resources counts and for CCM licensable cloud resources counts.

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What’s in Innovation Labs Release for ITOM Cloud License Estimator? 

  • Generating estimated counts of cloud resources that are eligible for licensing, using license counting rules for ITOM visibility and CCM. 
  •  CLE in its Innovation Labs supports AWS and Azure cloud environment 
  • Generates detailed pdf report for ITOM and CCM licensable cloud resources that gives you a clear picture of your cloud resources usage and helps you to identify those resources which may need to be optimized. This pdf report can be downloaded and shared for future references. 

 Link for our store app-  
https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/application/476947c39714ce108d3b350e6253af... 


Please refer to attached CLE readme pdf to know more about CLE setup.