Software Asset Management publisher pack for IBM

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Software Asset Management Publisher Pack for IBM

    The Software Asset Management publisher pack for IBM allows you to track and optimize licensing for IBM software products, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings. To utilize the pack, you must activate the Software Asset Management Professional for IBM plugin.

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    Key Features

    • Supports various license metrics, including Authorized User, Per Device, and Processor Value Unit (PVU).
    • Integration with IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) and BigFix Inventory is required for certain metrics like PVU, RVU, and VPC.
    • Discovery tools are used to locate IBM software installations and reconcile them with your software entitlements automatically.
    • Allows tracking of IBM licenses in VMware vSphere and LPAR environments through Authorized SAM Provider integrations.

    Key Outcomes

    By using the IBM publisher pack, you can effectively manage both full capacity and sub-capacity licenses for IBM products without requiring legacy tools. You will gain insights into compliance through the Software Publisher Analytics dashboard and the Software Asset Workspace, ensuring optimized licensing for your IBM and Red Hat software products.

    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 (VPC)
    Important:
    The PVU, RVU, and VPC license metrics are supported only if you integrate the IBM publisher pack with the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT), BigFix Inventory, or a Software Asset Management provider that is authorized to participate in the IBM Client Value Acceleration (CVA) Program. For more information on ILMT and BigFix Inventory integrations, see IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) and BigFix Inventory integrations. For more information on Authorized SAM Provider (ASP) integrations, see Authorized SAM Provider (ASP) integrations for IBM.
    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.

    Important:
    You must use different discovery tools based on the license metric that you are using for reconciliation, and if applicable, the type of IBM integration that you are using with the publisher pack:
    PVU and RVU license metrics
    To reconcile your IBM software products using the PVU or RVU license metrics, you must use one of the following discovery tools:
    • If you are integrating with the ILMT or BigFix Inventory, you must connect to these discovery tools using either version 1 or version 2 of the integration APIs.

    • If you are integrating with a Software Asset Management provider that is authorized to participate in the IBM CVA Program, you must use the ServiceNow Discovery application in conjunction with the IBM License Compliance for Software Asset Management application.

    VPC license metric
    To reconcile your IBM software products using the VPC license metric, you must use one of the following discovery tools:
    • If you are integrating with the ILMT or BigFix Inventory, you must connect to these discovery tools using version 2 of the integration APIs.
    • If you are integrating with a Software Asset Management provider that is authorized to participate in the IBM CVA Program, you must use the ServiceNow Discovery application in conjunction with the IBM License Compliance for Software Asset Management application.
    All other supported license metrics
    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 use any other discovery tool.