Assigning products to Cloud Paks

10.0.1 Available from 10.0.1 When you purchase a product as part of a Cloud Pak, assign instances of this product to the proper Cloud Pak to improve software tracking and calculate utilization of license metrics by Cloud Pak bundles.

Before you begin

You must have the Manage Software Classification permission to view the Software Classification panel and classify software. To view some additional columns related to computers on which the components are installed, you also need the View Endpoints permission.

About this task

Classification of non-containerized products to Cloud Paks is a two-step process. First, you classify components that are discovered by License Metric Tool to products with proper license metrics. Then, you assign products to Cloud Paks. The process needs to be two-stage because a single component can belong to different product flavors that have different conversion options. For example, the component WebSphere Application Server can be a part of two products: WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.

When these products are a part of Cloud Pak for Applications, their conversion ratios differ and are as follows.

4VPCs/ 1VPC for WebSphere Application Server
1VPC/ 1VPC for WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment

The following table shows how license metric quantity differs after applying the conversion option depending on how the component WebSphere Application Server is classified.

Table 1. Difference in license metric quantity resulting from component classification
Discovered component	Product to which the component is assigned	License metric	License metric quantity	Conversion option	License metric quantity after conversion
WebSphere Application Server	WebSphere Application Server	VPC	100	4VPCs/ 1VPC	25
WebSphere Application Server	WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	VPC	100	1VPC/ 1VPC	100

Another reason for two-stage classification is that only some product instances might be installed as part of a Cloud Pak. In the following example, the discovered components are assigned to two instances of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. Only the first instance was purchased as part of Cloud Pak for Applications. Thus, only this instance is assigned to the Cloud Pak.

Classification of components to products and products to Cloud Pak bundles.

Table 2. Classification of components to products, and products to Cloud Paks
Discovered component	Product to which the component is assigned	Product Instance	License metric	Cloud Pak
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	Instance 1	VPC	IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
IBM DB2 Workgroup Server	WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	Instance 1	VPC	IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	Instance 2	PVU	None

Procedure

In the top navigation bar, click Reports > Software Classification.
Select the product instance that you want to assign to a Cloud Pak. Ensure that this instance is assigned the license metric that is defined in the license agreement.
For example, to classify IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment as part of the IBM Cloud Pak for Applications, ensure that WebSphere Application Server is assigned the Virtual Processor Core (VPC) license metric as stated in the License Information document.
If the instance of the product that you want to assign to a Cloud Pak, reports a different license metric than specified in the license agreement, perform the following steps:
- For license metrics for which License Metric Tool calculates utilization automatically, reassign the components to the product with the proper metric. For more information, see: Assigning components to products.
- For license metrics for which License Metric Tool does not calculate utilization automatically, declare the metric quantity. For more information, see: Setting and removing the declared metric quantity.
Hover over Assign, and click FlexPoint or Cloud Pak Bundle.
Select the bundle to which you want to assign the product, and click Assign.

Results

Information about the Cloud Pak to which the product is assigned is displayed in the FlexPoint or Cloud Pak Bundle column.

What to do next

To view utilization of license metrics by the Cloud Pak, go to Reports > FlexPoints and Cloud Paks, and click Recalculate to refresh the data on the report. The report shows information only about non-containerized products that are a part of the Cloud Pak. For information about viewing the overall utilization of the license metric by the Cloud Pak, see: Licensing of non-containerized Cloud Pak programs.