8.6. Creating Subscription Asset Manager Usage Reports

As Section 4.1, “About the Structure of Organizations and Distributors” covers, organizations in Subscription Asset Manager are discrete and separate. Cumulative information in areas such as the Dashboard are for the organization being viewed only. Even if multiple organizations are configured on a single Subscription Asset Manager server, only one organization is viewable at a time.
It can be useful or even necessary to have a cross-organization or cross-distributor view of subscription allocation and status in order to maintain regulatory and policy compliance. Subscription Asset Manager reports can be configured to return information for multiple organizations, which allows that kind of cross-organizational data to be compiled.

8.6.1. Prerequisites

When using enhanced reporting, there are some additional system requirements:
  • All of the prerequisites in Section 2.1, “Prerequisites”.
  • The crond service must be running.
  • An additional 4 GB of disk space must be available for the reporting database journal.
  • Additional packages for the reporting server
    • splice
    • ruby193-rubygem-splice_reports
    • spacewalk-splice-tool