How Rational License Key Server Administration and Reporting Tool manages organization?
Hi,
How does Rational License Key Server Administration and Reporting Tool manage organizations' information to be charged.?
Is this an only way to separate license key servers into each organization to be charged?
Is there any other way to do this? (for example, to use "charge back report in ART". )
My Customer needs to manage license fee to be charged to each organization. we plan to use ART. I have read following article.
I have already read this article, but i can not find a way to do this.
Thank you in advance.
Ntatsumi
How does Rational License Key Server Administration and Reporting Tool manage organizations' information to be charged.?
Is this an only way to separate license key servers into each organization to be charged?
Is there any other way to do this? (for example, to use "charge back report in ART". )
My Customer needs to manage license fee to be charged to each organization. we plan to use ART. I have read following article.
I have already read this article, but i can not find a way to do this.
Rational License Key Server Administration and Reporting Tooｌ
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Deployment/RationalLicenseKeyServerAdministrationAndReportingTool
Chargeback reports associate license consumption with cost. A license administrator can charge different departments in the organization for the licenses that they consume.
Thank you in advance.
Ntatsumi
Accepted answer
AFAIK either the License Server nor the Reporting has the possibility to save iformations about the organization structure of a company or user.
We have some home-grown scripts which are doing the following:
- get the user and organizational unit from our corporate directory
- create a list user_login, cost center
- run lmutil lmstats regularly
- analyze the lmutil output and map it to the cost center
We have one license server system for our company with more than 350k employees.
The main problem is to have the correct information s about the org structure.
greetings georg.
We have some home-grown scripts which are doing the following:
- get the user and organizational unit from our corporate directory
- create a list user_login, cost center
- run lmutil lmstats regularly
- analyze the lmutil output and map it to the cost center
We have one license server system for our company with more than 350k employees.
The main problem is to have the correct information s about the org structure.
greetings georg.
Comments
Thank you for your quick respond. Your answer is useful. :-) I understood that ART 8.1.4.4 can not do this.
ART 8.1.4.5, which was released Dec 22nd 2014, provides new feature. just fyi.
Creating, modifying, and archiving chargeback groups
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSTWP_8.1.4/com.ibm.rational.license.doc/topics/t_SrvAdmRpt_chgback_group.html
This content applies to version 8.1.4.5 or later. You can run departmental chargeback reports based on groups in LDAP.
Thanks