Use this window to create new reports or delete existing
audit reports. By clicking a report, you can drill down to view its
summary, and then further down to view its details.
- Audit report statuses
- Some report statuses reflect situations that you can affect; others
are simply information about system status.
- Ready - The report is ready to be signed.
Review and sign the report if it matches the processor value unit
(PVU) or systems capacity, as measured in PVUs and CPUs, available
to the licensed products.
- Signing - The report is being signed. It
is not possible to make any changes that would affect the report's
PVU or CPU values. If the signing process fails, the audit report
status will change to ready again. You will be able to check
the reason why it was not signed in the log files.
- Signed - The report has been signed. You
must keep it for two years.
- Pending - You must sign the reports in
chronological order. There is a ready report that must be signed
before you can sign this one.
- Waiting - You can view this report but
cannot sign it until the finalization period is over. The finalization
period defines the number of days during which agents can continue
reporting on the period covered by this report. If any agents have
not yet sent their data to the server, the contents of this report
might still change.
- Running - Data for the report is not available
at the moment because it is being collected or recalculated.
Note: When the service provider feature is enabled, data is also
not available if essential periodic calculations for the corresponding
report group are not triggered. You can trigger essential periodic
calculations for a report group in the Manage Software Inventory panel.
If essential periodic calculations are not triggered, the report status
does not change from running.
- Data can also be unavailable if you have performed one of the
following actions:
- new manual or scheduled report generation (if the report covers
the period when data has not been aggregated)
- software bundle management
- product instance classification
Try again later to view this report.
- The time you need to wait for the report to be generated depends
on the following factors:
- the value of the maxAggregateUsageAge parameter
of the setserverconf command in case of report generation.
This parameter specifies the age of the data (in days) before it is
processed and consolidated by the server. The setting is used to ensure
that all the information relevant for aggregation has arrived at the
server, taking into account the frequency with which it is uploaded
from the agent.
- the size of your IT infrastructure which influences the time a
given report is in the running state.
- the amount of data processed in the software bundle management
or product instance classification.
- View only - You cannot sign this report
because its reporting period overlaps with that of a signed report.
However, you can still use the report as a reference (or delete it).
Note that this report does not provide any additional information
in the Details expandable section and about
the PVU and tier table version.
- Non-continuous - There is a gap between
the end date of the last signed report or the server installation
date (or the first day after the end date of the last migrated Tivoli® License Compliance Manager
2.3 report) and the start date of this one. To sign this report,
you must first create and sign a report that covers the gap because
the reports must be signed in chronological order. Use the info command
to view the server installation date and the date of the next report.
The diagram shows the relationships between the statuses:
- Select Action
- Use the drop-down list to select the action that you want to carry
out.
- Add Report
- Creates new audit report.
- Open
- Opens the chosen audit report.
- Delete
- Deletes the chosen audit report. Reports with a Signed status
can only be deleted after they are two years old.
To view the description of actions that
you can perform with the table, see Table actions list.