Products

Products are packages of features that can be sold by a producer. Products that will support usage management must use a metered license model. Also, producers specify a usage model for the product. The usage model defines the length of the reporting period and frequency at which usage data is reset. See Usage Management: Creating Products.

Important:Products using the same feature must be configured with the same usage model per account. For an account, the usage model that is specified for a product containing a specific feature will be the usage model that is used for subsequent entitlements or products containing that specific feature. For example:

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Product A (feature f1) and product B (features f1 and f2)

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Account C is first entitled to product A (feature f1) with usage model Monthly Statements (No Reset)

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Account C is then entitled to product B (features f1 and f2) with usage model Monthly Statements (Reset Monthly)

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Account C will use usage model Monthly Statements (No Reset) for both products A and B because they both contain feature f1 which was included in the first entitlement.

If Account C was first entitled to product B (features f1 and f2) with usage model Monthly Statements (Reset Monthly), this usage model would be used for both products/entitlements for the account.