Windows Server 2016+ metric

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How do others report on the license metric for Windows Server 2016 and newer?

The default metric is ‘Unknown’, and the existing metrics for Windows 2008/2012 are not relevant since they are based on socket “Microsoft Single and Dual Physical Processor”.

Windows 2016+ is based on Physical Core, but the metric “Microsoft Physical Core with SA” isn’t applicable as that’s used for SQL server.

The difference between SQL & Windows is that SQL has a minimum of 4 cores per physical socket, and Windows is a minimum of 8 cores per physical socket, which means that quad-core dual socket doesn’t report Windows server licensing correctly.

I am running v10.0

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I see that no one answered. I would also like to know if they are going to release a catalog where a metric can be assigned to the windows servers. Even putting the rest of the virtual servers inside a datacenter.

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@ssakunala, can you help with this forum post?

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Rafael,
It depends on what OS type licenses you own.
Please check the following link and other links for Microsoft enterprise reporting.
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/inventory/Inventory/overview/c_ms_physical_processor.html

For non-datacenter OS, the number of present instances should give install count. If other metric type licenses should be available, please submit an enhancement request at : https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/

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He used metrics from 2008 datacenter or 2012, and classified the windows within this license so that they do not count.

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I have submitted an rfe for this
https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-161

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On Reports --> Products and Metrics we can modify metric asociate to Product.

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Hi All,

We are facing the same issues. Is it any way available to define the metric for windows server 2016 and above os.