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How Metering API works
SWC is a customer facing usage dashboard that presents the user with a single global view across all IBM software products regardless of hybrid deployment. SWC collects usage:
- directly from products that are not onboarded on to mcsp (saas, on-prem, hybrid, etc.) .
- from mcsp for products that are onboarded on to mcsp through mcsp.
SWC is an IBM software product component that provides a consistent usage collection for:
- system of record
- archive
- audit logs
- pipeline
- protection scan files
- augment such as create SWC account, product details, subscription or license details, etc.
- usage summary calculation (saas, hybrid, in-progress)
- distribution
- SWLT
- Segment/Amplitude feed for IBM products
- DSW SapCC
- BSS (future)
- UI Global Dashboards for end-user customer
- UI Status of submitted data (in progress)
For details on IBM Software Central’s metering api, refer to:
