A base and peak license report is an aggregated report that contains information about all installed products in the landscape that have a base and peak license. A base and peak license specifies the base number of server processor cores per installed product that are licensed to a customer. If capacity usage exceeds the base licensed number of cores, the excess capacity usage, or peak, is charged separately. A base and peak license is defined by a contract item identifier that consists of a location ID, contract ID, contract item ID, and bundle component ID.

A base and peak report gathers information from all active license manifest files that contain base and peak licenses. The report shows the peak number of processor cores for all installed products with a base and peak license. You can also view more details including the daily status of a product, the number of installed and running product instances, and the number of used and licensed cores.

When a product has a base and peak license key and the license from the license key can be found in an active license manifest file, Command Central automatically assigns the license from the license key to the product instance. If the license key cannot be found in an active license manifest file, you must assign the license from the license key to the product instance yourself. At this point, Command Central automatically starts continuous metering and monthly report aggregation. You cannot start or stop the report aggregation.