Optimization Dashboard

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Overview Prerequisites for Charts Set up Annual Cost Set up Application Usage Tracking Local Usage Tracking Remote Usage Tracking Charts

Overview

The Optimization dashboard, located at Licenses > Home, lets you quickly review risk and optimization potentials in your environment. Click on a card to open the corresponding navigation item with filtered data. The trend of each card displays changes in this metric over the last week.

Prerequisites for Charts

The charts on the Optimization dashboard rely on information available at Required Licenses, in the Annual Cost and Usage Tracking columns. To ensure the proper display of these charts, you must first set up data for these columns

Set up Annual Cost

  1. Go to Software Compliance in the Licenses application.
  2. Open the selected software product for editing.
  3. On the General tab, specify a currency and a value for the Annual Unit Price.
  4. Click Save & Close.

Set up Application Usage Tracking

Local Usage Tracking

Before setting up local application usage tracking in Enterprise Service Management, you need to import computers and their inventory data from either SCCM or Empirum.

You can double-check if the application usage tracking is retrieved via the Empirum Inventory data provider or the SCCM Inventory data provider.

  • For SCCM, open the Matrix42 root folder and go to Messages/Data/SCCM.Inventory/LastResult, where you can check the contents of the SCM AUT Data.xml file.
  • For Empirum, open the Matrix42 root folder and go to Messages/Data/EmpirumInventory/LastResult, where you can check the contents of the Inventory Import file. Application usage tracking is stored in the SPSComputerClassApplicationUsage section of a computer record.
 
  1. Go to Software Compliance in the Licenses application.
  2. Open the relevant software product for editing.
  3. Go to the License Requirements > Usage Tracking tab and provide the following data:
    1. Select the checkbox Enable tracking of the following executables.
    2. Under Relevant Application Executables, type an executable file name that is run on imported computers. Specifying the executable version is optional.
      You can find  the .exe name and version number in the SCM AUT Data.xml file, located in the Matrix42 root folder under Messages/Data/SCCM.Inventory/LastResult.
  4. Save the changes for the software product.

Further reading on Local Usage Tracking: Tracking local usage for software products.

Remote Usage Tracking

  1. Go to Software Compliance in the Licenses application.
  2. Open the selected software product for editing.
  3. Go to the License Requirements > Usage Tracking tab and provide the following data:
    1. Select the checkbox Enable tracking of the following executables.
    2. Under Relevant Application Executables, type an executable file name that is run on imported computers. Specifying the executable version is optional.
  4. Save the changes for the software product.

The executable must correspond to an entry listed at Technical Inventory > Application Usage. 

 

Further reading on Remote Usage Tracking:

Charts

The Optimization dashboard features the following charts:

  • Global Annual Risk
  • Annual Optimization Potential
  • Unused Software 
  • Annual Risk by Organizational Unit (Top 10)
  • Annual Optimization Potential by Cost Center (Top 10)
  • Annual Risk by Publisher (Top 10)
  • Annual Optimization Potential by Publisher (Top 10)
  • Global Annual Risk by Software Product (Top 10)
  • Annual Optimization Potential by Software Product (Top 10)
  • Global Annual Risk over Time
  • Global Compliance over Time

 

 

 

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