1E 9.x (on-premises)

The compliance screens in AppClarity rely on selecting a compliance repository that has been associated to both entitlement and inventory repositories. When you installed AppClarity, this created two new default repositories in Settings→Configuration→Repositories to add to the existing default inventory making three:

To run a Compliance Report, an AppClarity user must have any of the following roles:

Logged-in users with any of the following roles can view the AppClarity→Compliance→License Summary screen:

The first time you browse to the AppClarity pages the only repositories available are the default ones. To run the AppClarity→ Compliance→License Summary you will use the Default Compliance repository, it will already be associated with the Default Inventory but you'll also need to associate it with the Default Entitlement repository. Switch to Settings→Configuration→Repositories:

Before viewing the Compliance License Position, ensure License Demand Compliance (LDC) reports for Microsoft Core, Oracle Processor, IBM PVU and RedHat Socket have been refreshed.

To run and view License Demand Compliance (LDC) reports :

When you have refreshed the LDC reports, refresh the Compliance Report and view License Position for Compliance using the Refresh reports icon on the top right of the page.

The screen should now display the information derived from the reports we just refreshed. Here we can see entries for each product, including the Vendor, Title and Edition and the most significant value, which is in the License Position column.

This shows the status of the licenses for each of those products, as there are no entitlements defined, they'll show negative values. The numbers indicate how many licenses are needed in order to make that product compliant. The License Metric column at the end of the row shows how the licenses are calculated, either by Device, User, Core or by Processor.

To view the Compliance Details for any of the products displayed:

You've just created your first report in AppClarity and had a quick glance at your compliance position, without any entitlements set, showing what types of software are installed in your network and how many licenses must be created in order to make that software compliant.

You can refresh reports from individual AppClarity screens, as well as using the Settings App, by using the refresh icon next to the Last Refreshed box:

Clicking the dropdown icon next to the refresh icon shows you the last report that was run, a link to the Settings→Monitoring→Process Log and a Status:

You can refresh reports from the following pages:

Refresh reports using Settings

You can also refresh reports using the Settings app, for example:

1. Switch to Settings→Configuration→Connectors and click Execute.

2. In the Execute action popup from Repository select Default Compliance and Action as Generate Report - Compliance, and click Execute.

3. To monitor the progress of the new action navigate to Settings→Monitoring→Process log to view the Generate Report action running.

4. When the Generate Report action has completed, switch app to AppClarity→Compliance→License Position.

Scheduling a report refresh for a repository

Toautomaticallyrefresh a report for a repository you can set up a schedule:

1. Under the Settings→Configuration→Schedules and click Add.

2. In the Add schedule screen for:

   1. Schedule name - enter a logical name for the new schedule.

   2. Repository - select your repository from the dropdown menu.

   3. Action type - select the associated action type you want to schedule.

   4. Frequency - select the frequency.

Note

For any entitlement repository, when a new entitlement is created (which triggers an entitlement consolidation) a Schedule called EntitlementConsolidationScheduler is created for this repository by default, it's set to run on a 24 hrs frequency (daily basis).

You can choose which columns are displayed in AppClarity detail tables to increase readability. On the pages where you can pick the displayed columns you'll see the control highlighted in the example.

When you click on the Choose columns control it opens a popup displaying every column on the current screen, the controls are:

Control	Explanation
Available Columns	Columns which are by default hidden from display on screen. You can still include any of them to display on screen.
Visible Columns	Displays the list of columns displayed on screen. Mandatory Columns cannot be excluded, the selection controls for these items are disabled. They can still be moved up or down. Tip Some pages have mandatory columns and a set of default hidden columns.
Arrow buttons	To move up or move down, exclude or include any column, clicking on the ellipsis displays these additional controls.
Drag and drop	You can drag and drop columns to change how they are displayed.
Exclude columns	Exclude column button allows you to select columns to exclude from the current display.

For example, in Viewing License Compliance Details we viewed theLicense Summary, using the Choose columns control you can pick which columns are displayed in the table. On this page, the default columns are:

Each page also has some mandatory columns which cannot be excluded from display. When you click the Choose columns icon the excluded columns are greyed out and cannot be removed.

For example, in License Summary you cannot remove these columns:

From this screen we chose to exclude Unknown Installs and move Underutilized Installs to the top of the list.

To apply this view to the current report, click Save.

You can also choose Restore to reset the column chooser UI or Cancel to cancel your changes and exit the Choose columns control.