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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Spectrum LSF
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 3, 2018

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect.
Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that application. Then, you can assign the Application name to a set of Features.
The problem is, you have to manually add up all your tokens, multiply them by yearly cost (or whatever period), then divide that by months to get a monthly cost. If your licenses change weekly, you have to update all the values weekly.
Since the tool already knows how many tokens you have of each tool, it would be much easier to just assign a cost to one token. Or, if you have a bundle of features that have a flat cost, you should be able to define that, according a unit of 1 sub-bundle of tokens. In any case, the User should not have to calculate the monthly cost when the information could be entered once. Only if the negotiated price changes, should the User have to enter anything.

Next, I manually create a cost-per-5-minute chart. This charts the $ cost of unused tokens. For example, 1000 tokens of a $25,000/year token, not used for 5 minutes, wastes $142 per 5 minutes. This graph should show the total cost of the unused license (per type), as a sum. Thus you could see, at a glance, the cost of 1 months unused licenses per each application. Doing this by hand is arduous.

Finally, it would be nice to have a Utility to upload a csv with Feature, Application, Cost/Month, as we generally have 1000's of these.

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    Aug 25, 2020

    This RFE has been open for a long time and is not in plan to be delivered in the foreseeable future. If there is still broad interest in this RFE it can be resubmitted.