Custom metrics

Use Custom metrics in SAM on Snow Atlas as a customized way to perform license compliance calculations.

There can be situations where the Snow Inventory Agents cannot discover data on an application that you have in your IT environment. Consequently, the pre-defined metrics might not apply for that application. For such applications you can instead use a custom metric together with a custom field to monitor the license compliance. For more information, see Custom fields.

The license compliance calculations can then be based on values in two ways:

• The number of purchased licenses is compared with a custom field value that you manually assign to one or more organization nodes. The custom field value reflects the number of required licenses. For more information, see Use a custom metric and a custom field for organization nodes for compliance calculations.

• The number of purchased licenses is compared with a custom field value on one or more devices that require one or more licenses. You can set this value manually, or you can import computer data to populate the custom field. For more information, see Use a custom metric and a custom field for devices for compliance calculations.