[BESAdmin-Announcements] Software Use Analysis and License Metric Tool 9.x - New Beta Functionality

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Software Use Analysis allows for maintaining an up-to-date inventory of 
installed software and ensuring license compliance. License Metric Tool is 
a free equivalent that contains a subset of features available in Software 
Use Analysis and is used for managing IBM software only. 

We are pleased to announce that new features are available in the Software 
Use Analysis and License Metric Tool 9.x Beta:

Monitoring usage of license metrics other than PVU and RVU
You can view the License Use Data report to obtain information about the 
maximum usage of license metrics other than PVU and RVU over the last 30 
days. The data is available for products that deliver software license 
metric tags and is not aggregated. You can export the history of license 
use and aggregate it outside of the application according to the 
information that is provided in the license agreement.

Extended discovery of Oracle Databases (SUA only)
You can retrieve information about editions and options of Oracle 
Databases that are installed in your environment. The functionality is 
supported for Oracle Database 10.2 and 11.2, Standard and Enterprise 
edition.

Collecting capacity data directly from KVM hosts
You can collect capacity data from KVM hosts that are not managed by 
RHEV-M.

Identifying computers running on public clouds
You can identify which computers are running on public clouds to ensure 
that PVU values are properly calculated for them.

Coexistence of License Metric Tool 9.x with Software Use Analysis 9.x
You can add License Metric Tool to your environment to monitor the 
endpoints that do not require the extended capabilities of Software Use 
Analysis. License Metric Tool can be connected to the same Endpoint 
Manager server as Software Use Analysis, which allows for managing both 
applications from one console and makes monitoring your environment much 
easier.

If you are not subscribed to the Beta yet, visit the following link to 
find instructions for joining the program: https://ibm.biz/beta_program
If you are already subscribed to the Beta and have the IBM Endpoint 
Manager installed, ensure upgrade the Beta fixlet site to version 18. 
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