1. ILMT/BigFix Inventory Demo
6/27/2018
September 2017
ILMT/BigFix Inventory Demo
Pawel Januszek,
Boguslaw Nowak
BigFix Inventory/ILMT Development

2. Agenda
(ILMT and BigFix Inventory) Flexible custom attributes that facilitate risk management of license compliance in scenarios such as:
· Creating notifications about products that approach end of entitlement date
· Categorizing products by tenants, contracts or owners
· Having quick access to supporting license documents
(BigFix Inventory) Whole version string visible in BigFix Inventory user interface for discovered Oracle and IBM products.
(BigFix Inventory) We would also like to answer the question whether BigFix Inventory can be used by SAMs to trace SAP license utilization?

3. Hosted Beta Environment

4. Flexible custom attributes for Products/Thresholds
6/27/2018
Part 1
Flexible custom attributes for Products/Thresholds

5. 6/27/2018
How James, Software Asset Manager, can use Custom Attibutes to be notified about products which are approaching renewal date.
James' tasks: James needs to inform Procurement about products which are approching end of entitlement. He does not want to review BigFix Inventory UI every day.
Solution:
James will use Custom Attributes on reports which are created from ‚All Metrics’ report to be notifed about products which are 90 days or less to their renewal time.
In addition James can have invormation which Contract/Entitlements Group are impacted, who is Product Owner responsible for them and review relevant License documents.

6. 6/27/2018
Part 2
Whole version string visible in BigFix Inventory user interface for discovered Oracle and IBM products

7. 6/27/2018
How James, Software Asset Manager, can have extended version information for initial security assessment.
James' tasks: James uses software management process which includes sharing software inventory with security departament in his organization. His task is to prepare a report of discovered software inventory with extended version information.
Solution:
James will enable extended discovery of Oracle databases to get full version information, which contains more information than needed for software asset management purpose. Extened version information is available on Software Classification report.

8. BigFix Inventory support for SAP license utilization tracing
6/27/2018
Part 3
BigFix Inventory support for SAP license utilization tracing

9. 6/27/2018
How James, Software Asset Manager, can trace SAP license utilization in BigFix Inventory.
James' tasks: As the SAM, James wants to trace license utilization in SAP system,to make sure license costs are under control. James uses BigFix Inventory to manage licenses for other type of software, so James would like to use the same tool for SAP licence utilization tracing.

10. James took conversation with Peter, SAP administrator to understand SAP licensing complexity
Per Peter explanation:
Almost every software engine uses its own specific metric (e.g. number of employees, annual revenue etc.).
License usage of software and users is measured by SAP software itself. The resulting report is a base for license compliance audits.
Manual measurement is a time-consuming task however this is yearly performed action. It can be automated but not all SAP customers take advantage of this possibility.
No historical data or trends tracing
Modules with self-declared licensing model

11. Peter draw sample SAP architecture
SAP landscape
USMM
SLAW 1 2 3 4 5
USMM - System Measurement SLAW - License Administration Workbench (consolidation of measurements and final report)

12. and presented sample SAP licensing report
| Consolidated Meas. Results for Engines (Productive Clients) |
| |
| Engine ID Number |
| mySAP Human Resources |
| Master records PD Organizational Mgmt |
| Master records PD personnel development |
| Master records PA withdrawn |
| Master records PA inactive |
[…]
| mySAP Banking |
| CLR: Financial Objects |
| CLR: Active Financial Objects |
| RM: Financial Objects |
| RM: Active financial objects |
| Consolidated Meas. Results by User Types |
| User Type Surcharges ID Number |
| Standalone |
| SAP Application Professional CB |
| mySAP Professional (Cat. II) |
SAP engine name
Metric values
Metric names

13. In cooperation with BFI developers, James proposed solution
Blue – IBM
Green - SAP
BigFixSAPTool
BigFix
Inventory
SAP Java connector 1
Config file
BigFix communication
SAP proprietary protocol
SAP landscape
USMM 1
USMM 5 3
USMM
SLAW
USMM
USMM 2 4

14. SAP license usage reporting in BFI – Resource Utilization report

15. 6/27/2018
How James, Software Asset Manager, can trace SAP license utilization in BigFix Inventory.
Solution:
BFI provides the interface to collect information about SAP license utilization and display them on Resource Utilization report in BigFix Inventory.

16. 6/27/2018
Future: Peter asked James if using BFI it is possible to manage from BFI System Measurement step in SAP ladnscape.
BigFixSAPTool
USMM
SLAW
SAP landscape
SAP Java connector
Blue – IBM
Green - SAP
BigFix
Inventory
Config file
ABAP code 1 2 3 4 5
SAP proprietary protocol
BigFix communication

17. Forum: BigFix Inventory | License Metric Tool
6/27/2018
Forum: BigFix Inventory | License Metric Tool
Wiki: BigFix Inventory | License Metric Tool
Beta Community
Twitter: BigFix Inventory | License Metric Tool
YouTube: BigFix Inventory | License Metric Tool