IBM License Metric Tool

IBM® UrbanCode™ Build uses the IBM® License Metric Tool to collect and measure license use.

The IBM® License Metric Tool tracks the number of licenses used by the IBM UrbanCode Build instance. The tool tracks license usage with IBM® Software License Metric Tag (SLMT) files. You can review your license usage on the License page. The License page displays the current number of used licenses, and also provides a record of previous usage. For more information about license reports, see Monitoring license usage.

SLMT file format

The XML-based SLMT file is stored in the IBM UrbanCode Build server's server_installation/var/log directory, and has the file extension of .slmtag. The file is updated whenever the server checks license usage.

The SLMT file's <Type> element contains the license type. For the IBM UrbanCode Build, the value is always FLOATING_USER.

The <Value> element contains the number of users that are using the license. For IBM UrbanCode Build, a licensed user is a committer. A committer is a user who does some activity that commits source code to a source repository used by IBM UrbanCode Build. The number of licenses that you purchase represents the number of concurrent users who can commit source code to a repository.

This code fragment contains an example SLMT file.

<SchemaVersion>2.1.1</SchemaVersion>
<SoftwareIdentity>
	<PersistentId>795c47c590734ed9a028b7e3f5be0da3</PersistentId>
	<Name>IBM UrbanCode Build Committer</Name>
	<InstanceId>/C:/opt/uBuild612</InstanceId>
</SoftwareIdentity>
<Metric logTime="2016-03-28T13:19:41-04:00">
	<Type>FLOATING_USER</Type>
	<SubType></SubType>
	<Value>1</Value>
	<Period>
		<StartTime>2016-03-28T13:19:41-04:00</StartTime>
		<EndTime>2016-03-28T13:19:41-04:00</EndTime>
	</Period>
</Metric>

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