Chapter 4. Expense management for Red Hat subscriptions

Measures the consumption of installed Red Hat products.

This data tells you: How much am I using? For example: I have 42 hypervisors, each with 2 sockets, tagged with the Production usage type.

Measures the amount of Red Hat products that have been purchased. It is the upper limit of usage.

This data tells you: How much have I purchased? For example: I purchased QTY 52 of RH00001. Each RH00001 covers a 2-socket hypervisor and all of its guests.

Measures how much of the purchased capacity has been exhausted.

This data tells you: How much of my capacity is being used? For example: I am using 42 of my 52 RH00001, leaving 10 free for additional use.

Defines non-technical system attributes for hosts to aid accurate inventory reporting:

System purpose is configured by using the Subscription Manager tool.

You share all collected data with Red Hat.

You share just enough data with Red Hat to enable subscription reporting.

You do not share any data with Red Hat. Instead, you track your subscription usage as follows: