Contents
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Introducing AppClarity
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Implementing AppClarity
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Configuring AppClarity
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Using AppClarity
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AppClarity user roles
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Running your first License Compliance Summary
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Viewing software install counts across all devices
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Viewing product usage
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Viewing product compliance
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Viewing your effective license position
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Creating a license entitlement
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Creating and linking a maintenance entitlement
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Creating an entitlement using a SKU
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Creating an agreement entitlement
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Importing entitlements from a folder
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Managing compliance for user-based licenses
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Calculating license demand
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Excluding devices from License Demand Calculation using Management Groups
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Reclaiming a product based on its usage
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Stopping a reclaim policy
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Viewing the software reclaim reports
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Scheduling AppClarity reports
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AppClarity user roles
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Troubleshooting
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Training
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Reference
Summary
You can view your compliance position, focusing on the products installed on your system. From here, you can also add entitlements for a specific product.
Before viewing the Compliance → License Summary, please ensure that License Demand reports for SQL Core, IBM PVU, Oracle Processor and RedHat Socket has been successfully refreshed for the Default Compliance repository.
Viewing product compliance
This example assumes that you have associated your chosen compliance repository with your chosen entitlement repository. This example uses Default Compliance and Default Entitlement where the Compliance report has been run against the compliance repository, please refer to Running your first License Compliance Summary for details about how to do this.
To view product compliance and interact with the products to create new licenses and improve your compliance:
- Navigate to AppClarity→Compliance→License Summary. Here you'll see a summary of your compliance position. The displayed table shows compliance information about all your products.
- This displays the License Summary page, for more details on the fields on this page please refer to License Summary page.
You can choose which columns are displayed in Inventory and AppClarity detail tables to increase readability. On pages where you can pick the displayed columns you'll see a new control like the one highlighted below:
To find out more about this feature refer to Running your first Compliance License Summary: Choosing the columns to display in reports.
- Following a defaulter install, there are no entitlements so all the products are showing as red in the Compliance Category because they're non-compliant.
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To view Compliance Information about a specific product click directly on the colored bar in the Compliance Category. Also, on mouse hover, it displays 3 categories as below and also display hover tool top %
- Compliant (green) - Total no of compliant counts
- Non Compliant (red) - Total no of non compliant counts
- Exempted (blue) - Total no of exempted counts.
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This displays the compliance Summary by Installs page, for more details on the fields on this page please refer to Summary by Installs page.
