Monthly Metering of a Landscape
The pricing contract and licenses for some products are based on usage. If you want to meter installed product instances in a Command Central landscape monthly based on usage, you generate a product usage report for billing. This report is an excerpt of the aggregated report and is used by Software AG for billing. There are two types of usage-based licenses.
License | Charges are based on... | Pricing Model | Report Data |
Base and peak | Product components such as processor cores. | A base number is defined for each type of component and usage is charged when those numbers are exceeded (peak). | Peak number of components for each product. |
Total usage | Metrics such as events or connections. | All usage is charged, or a base number is defined for each metric and usage is charged when those numbers are exceeded. | Total usage or usage above the defined base usage, depending on the pricing model. |
The report also contains information such as the daily status of a product, the number of installed and running product instances, and the number of used and licensed components.
All usage-based pricing installations have a contract item identifier that is a unique ID for a contract item in a license manifest. The contract item identifier consists of a location ID, contract ID, contract item ID, and bundle component ID. The product usage report for billing gathers information from all active license manifest files that contain a usage-based license.
If Command Central can find the license from a product license key in an active license manifest file, it automatically assigns the license to the product instance. If Command Central cannot find the license key in an active license manifest file, you must assign the license to the product instance yourself. Command Central automatically starts continuous metering and monthly report aggregation. You cannot start or stop report aggregation.