SPSS - SAMP IBM Publisher Pack

[levy8926]

Is IBM SPSS (IBM SPS Statistics) supported within the SN SAM Pro IBM Publisher Pack?

[mikew_samexpert]

What is the license metric?

[Victor Paredes]

Hello - 

SAM supports license calculations for many publishers and license metrics. The best way to answer your question and future questions like this is to determine 'what is the license metric?'. After knowing this you can refer to the list of Software License Metrics we support (see below) and if the metric is listed then it is supported by SAM. 

Link to Software License Metrics on ServiceNow DocSite

Currently these are the IBM metrics supported by SAM:

• Authorized User: Licenses each user who is granted access to an IBM software product.
• Authorized User Value Unit: Licenses the number of select users who are granted access to an IBM software product.
• Employee User Value Unit: Licenses the total number of users within your organization who are granted access to an IBM software product.
• External User Value Unit: Licenses the total number of users outside your organization who are granted access to an IBM software product.
• Per Device: Licenses a device for the number of installations of software.
• Per Named User: Licenses a specific user for the number of installations of software.
• Per Processor (CPU count): Licenses processors on either a physical server or virtual machine.
• Per User: Licenses a user for the number of installations of software.
• Processor Value Unit (PVU): Licensing is based on the processor technology and the number of processors that are made available to the program. Full capacity Processor Value Unit (PVU) entitlements require licenses for all activated processor cores in the physical hardware environment. Sub-capacity Processor Value Unit (PVU) entitlements require licenses for fewer than the full capacity of your server or group of servers.
• Resource Value Unit (RVU): Licensing is based on the number of activated processor cores used or managed by a product. Full capacity Resource Value Unit (RVU) entitlements require licenses for all activated processor cores in the physical hardware environment. Sub-capacity Resource Value Unit (RVU) entitlements require licenses for fewer than the full capacity of your server or group of servers.
• Virtual Processor Core (VPC): Licenses the number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs) that are available to or managed by a product.

Thank you,

Victor

[HesterR63]

Hi Victor, 

When you say "supported" does that mean that ServiceNow is making the necessary calculations against these metrics? Or does ServiceNow rely on IBM License Metric Tool's measurement against these metrics? How does ILMT and ServiceNow Discovery work together to report usage?

[tom_p94]

Hi Hester, did you ever find an answer to this? Thanks