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10.8 Managing licenses
IBM Workload Deployer is a license-aware appliance capable of tracking license usage,
generating reports, and enforce licensing policies. A cloud infrastructure can be a volatile
environment with middleware components constantly being added and removed. This can
easily lead to license infringements, or the total opposite, license under utilization.
The License Management panel, shown in Figure 10-101, is accessible through the Cloud
Product Licenses menu. From this view, you can track the license usage by two possible
means:
Using the IBM License Metric Tool
Using built-in IBM W ...