Managing contracts with metrics that are not calculated by BigFix Inventory

BigFix Inventory does not calculate license for every type of license metric, including the custom metrics. For a list of calculated license metrics, see Reported license metrics.

You can create contracts for these metrics and manage their values. For instance, you have a license contract for Windows Server 2016 Standard and you want to create a contract for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard with Microsoft Client Access License (CAL) metric.

You can create such contracts as described in this document. There are some additional considerations for classifying the discovered components and you will find instructions below.

  1. Before you start, you need to create a new license metric.

  2. Assign this metric to a product.

  3. Add a contract with this product and metric.


  4. After adding the contract, classify all instance components that are part of this product to this metric. It is similar to what was described in the previous scenarios.

    If you measure CAL license for this product you can enter its value in ‘Product Metrics per Group’.

  5. After that the value of metric is defined, delta and threshold is visible on ‘All contracts’ report.