Specify resource values for your custom license metrics

If you create a custom license metric based on resource values, specify the resource value for each software product that you want to calculate licensing requirements for.

Before you begin

Role required: sam_user

Procedure

1. Open the Resource Value [samp_sw_resource_value] table.
   • If you're using the Software Asset Workspace, open the License operations view. From the License operations view, navigate to Resource value > Resource value.
   • If you're using the Software Asset Management classic application, navigate to All > Software Asset > Administration > Resource Value.
2. Select New.
3. On the form, fill in the fields.

   Table 1. Resource Value form

   Field	Description
   Name	Name of the resource value.
   Software model	Software model of the software product that the resource value is associated with.
   Company	Company of the associated software product.
   Location	Physical location of the associated software product.
   Units consumed	Total number of resource value units that you are currently consuming of the associated software product. For example, if you are protecting 50 terabytes of data using a data protection software product, set the Units consumed field to 50.
   Department	Department that the associated software product is assigned to.
   Cost Center	Cost center that is financially responsible for the associated software product.

4. Save the resource value.
   • If you're using the Software Asset Workspace, select Save.
   • If you're using the Software Asset Management classic application, select Submit.

Result

When subsequent reconciliations run, the Software Asset Management application determines the license compliance position of the associated software product by comparing the value of the Units consumed field against the value of the corresponding Licenses required field in the License Metric Results [samp_license_metric_result] table.