OTM Licensing dashboard
Summarize
Summary of OTM Licensing dashboard
The OTM Licensing dashboard is a tool within the ITOM Licensing application version 4.0, available on the ServiceNow Store. It enables you to monitor and assess your organization's resource consumption against your purchased OTM subscriptions. The dashboard provides detailed, visual reports for each OTM application, showing daily usage counts and average subscription unit utilization over the past 90 days.
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Access
To access the OTM Licensing dashboard, navigate in ServiceNow to All > OTM License > OTM Licensing Dashboard. Administrative roles on the ServiceNow AI Platform are required to use this dashboard.
Key Features
- Resource Consumption Visualization: Displays daily raw resource counts before deduplication and categorization, allowing you to see all detected resources relevant to license usage.
- Subscription Units Tracking: Shows subscription unit counts for different licensable categories over the last 120 days per OTM application, with a 90-day average utilization line calculated using standardized SU ratios.
- Detailed CI Breakdown: Hovering over subscription bars reveals a table listing Configuration Item (CI) categories included in daily counts, with absolute numbers and their relative shares.
- Version Tracking: Displays the OTM Licensing application version used daily on your instance, helping explain any spikes in resource counts following upgrades.
Practical Use Cases
- For Administrators: Validate and monitor resource usage across different OTM products.
- Compliance Reporting: Identify and report cases where resource consumption exceeds the number of purchased subscription units to ensure licensing compliance.
Important Notes
- Resources managed by SG-OT Excel are included in license consumption counts, considering last scan dates within and beyond 90 days.
- ServiceNow applications treat devices and applications within an application service as configuration items (CIs), which are central to license consumption tracking.
Use the OTM Licensing dashboard to assess resource consumption and status in relation to your acquired subscriptions. The dashboard provides dedicated reports for each OTM application, providing visual representations of daily usage counts and the average utilization of subscription units over a 90-day period. The OTM Licensing dashboard is an integral component of ITOM Licensing application version 4.0, accessible at ServiceNow Store.
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Required ServiceNow AI Platform roles
admin
Access the Assessment dashboard
To open the dashboard for OTM, navigate to .
Use cases
| User | Dashboard use |
|---|---|
| admin | Validate the resource usage for different OTM products. Report the cases where the organization exceeded the number of purchased subscription units for specific resources. |
Data visualization
| Title | Source table | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTM Visibility Usage and OTM Foundation Usage | ITOM Licensing CI Counts [itom_lu_ci_counts] and UsageAnalytics Counts for Tables [usageanalytics_count] | The first area displays the daily raw resource counts, which means all the detected resources before deduplication, normalization, and reconciliation required to sort them into specific CIs. Note: CIs managed by
SG-OT Excel are counted and listed for license consumption with last_scan dates more recent than, equal to, and older than 90 days ago. Hover over the bars to see the table of resource types. Each type is shown with an absolute number of resources and a share it takes among others. The second area displays bars that represent Subscription units counts for different licensable categories for the last 120 days per OT application.The dashboard also displays the brown line that represents the UsageAnalytics counts for table. This count is based on average consumption of subscription units for the last 90 days using SU ratios where one server, three PaaS resources, three containers, or one unresolved monitored object equal 1 SU. Hover over the vertical bar in the Subscription units area for the desired day to open the Available CIs list. The table shows each CI category included in the daily CI count, along with an absolute number of resources and a share it takes among others. The third area shows which version of the OTM Licensing is used on the instance every day. It helps explaining spikes in count every time the new version is installed. |