A few years back CA's move to 'gold key' provided its customers with a simplified license management approach for CA products. A CA product with a 'gold key' assumes that the customer is using the product per the terms, conditions and license metrics defined in the contract, and doesn't enforce a programmatic license check. While this mechanism eliminates the complexities involved with license keys and associated maintenance, it also transfers, almost entirely, the onus of ensuring license compliance to application administrators.
This blog explains the method for determining CA BSI license usage to help application administrators in ensuring compliance.
CA BSI has a UI screen buried in the product that provides usage information summarized on a single page. This page can be accessed by directly typing http://<bsiserver>/Licenses/Licenses.aspx in a browser's address bar, where <bsiserver> should be replaced with the web server host/domain name. This should bring up a page similar to the image below:
Here the 'Used' column is relevant from usage tracking perspective. It provides the number for each metric actively being used. The 'Maximum' column is not relevant as the 'gold key' transition removed maximum limits as enforced by the product earlier. For obtaining the accurate maximum limits for license metrics the contract document should be referred.
Name | Description |
Adapters | Number of adapters that are currently connected to the CA BSI server. |
Concurrent Users | Number of current concurrent users. |
Contracts | Number of contracts currently defined in the system. |
Metrics | Number of Metrics currently defined in the system. |
Contract Parties | Number of contract parties currently defined in the system. |
Reports | Number of saved reports in the system |
Users | Total number of users defined in the system. |
It's recommended that application administrators review this information at frequent intervals to take note of usage and address any compliance gaps.