The Locker application helps you to manage vRealize Cloud Universal licenses for your vRealize Cloud Universal subscription and collect your daily data usage for the associated products and cloud services.

When you purchase vRealize Cloud Universal subscription, you receive access to vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager, which is a new complimentary utility service. With vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager, you can add endpoints and monitor the data usage for your vRealize Cloud Universal subscription services. You must create vRealize Cloud Universal licenses at the locker level in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, and then connect these licenses to vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager to monitor your cloud data usage. For more information onvRealize Cloud Subscription Manager, refer to the vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager documentation.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have registered with My VMware to access licenses.

Procedure

  1. If you do not have My VMware account, navigate to the vRealize Operations Management Suite dashboard, and then click Settings.
  2. Click My VMware and add a vRealize Automation cloud account.
  3. After your My VMware accounts are configured, then the corresponding license keys are synced.
  4. From the vRealize Operations Management Suite dashboard, click Locker.
  5. Click the License icon. The vRealize Cloud Universal licenses are created under My VMware account and are displayed in the licenses table.
  6. To re-sync licenses from My VMware account, click Retrieve Licenses.
  7. If you already have products deployed, then import these products in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, and then apply the vRealize Cloud Universal licenses to these products captured in locker. If there are no existing products present, then you can use the vRealize Cloud Universal licenses present in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager locker for product deployment. For more information, view the Configure License Within Locker topic.
  8. If you have already downloaded your license, you can add the license details in the locker.
  9. To connect a license to vRealize Cloud Universal subscription, select a license which is displayed in the license table, and then right-click the vertical ellipses.
    1. Click Connect License.
    2. Under API Token, generate an API token from your user account for vRealize Cloud Universal subscription, and then click Next.
    3. Under Match License Key, the vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager finds a correct match for the provided API token, and lists out the organization details.
    4. Under Report Frequency, you will receive a confirmation that you are connected to vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager, and your data usage is reported to vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager twice a day.
    5. Click Finish.
  10. To disconnect a license in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, right-click the vertical ellipses, and then click Disconnect License.
  11. To trigger the license usage for a product, select a license from the license table, and then right-click the vertical ellipses.
    1. Click Sync Usage.
    2. You can download the usage sync report to view the data usage for the products.
  12. To view the data consumption report, select a license, and then right-click the vertical ellipses.
    1. Click Generate Report.
    2. To view a graphical representation of the report, click GENERATE on the Generate Report page.
    3. To download the report for a maximum period of 120 days, click DOWNLOAD.