The Red Hat Asset Management Program (RHAMP) is Red Hat’s partner-led alternative to subscription reviews or audits.
How it works:
Rather than going through a review, your organization works with an authorized Red Hat partner on an ongoing basis. The partner verifies product deployment, owned entitlements (subscriptions), and how they are used to produce a license position. This report is then submitted by the client to Red Hat. The partner repeats this process, usually quarterly, for as long as the partner is engaged.
How Red Hat presents it:
A collaborative way to manage your subscriptions and ensure compliance.
Where the exposure is:
For IT leadership and procurement, the commercial exposure comes from the license position the partner prepares. If the license position shows more deployments than subscriptions, that gap becomes a shortfall Red Hat can ask you to settle through a true-up.
Because the partner is authorized by Red Hat, it is a very strict interpretation of the licensing rules. It’s sensible to have your own figures checked independently before you agree to the terms or accept a report.
LicenseHawk gives you an independent check on RHAMP, whether you’re deciding to join or you’re already reporting through a partner.
Red Hat expects RHAMP to reduce review disruption, improve entitlement monitoring, prevent unbudgeted true-ups, and help you right-size at renewal. Whether you see those benefits depends on the contract terms you agree to and on how accurately the baseline counts your Red Hat deployments.
We advise at both stages, before you join RHAMP and after a partner starts reporting.
For Organizations Considering RHAMPWe review the RHAMP contract terms and check your Red Hat deployment data ahead of the partner's baseline. We also estimate the cost of likely shortfalls and prepare your questions for Red Hat.
For Organizations Already in RHAMPLicenseHawk validates the partner's entitlement baseline and usage reports against your own records, including container and cloud workloads. If a report shows a shortfall, we check the counting and support your response to Red Hat.
You've received the RHAMP contract terms and need to decide whether to join. Before you agree, you need independent advice on what those terms commit you to.
Your Red Hat estate now spans virtual machines, containers, and public cloud. You need your own count validated before an authorized partner produces the entitlement baseline.
The partner's baseline or a later usage report shows more deployments than subscriptions. You need the count checked before you agree to a true-up.
Red Hat says RHAMP helps you avoid unbudgeted true-ups, and your CFO wants to test that before approving it. You need a cost model built on your own entitlement and deployment data.
We have no partnership with Red Hat or IBM, and we aren't an authorized RHAMP partner. Our advice is based on your contract terms and your own subscription data.
We defend organizations in Red Hat subscription reviews and apply that experience when we assess RHAMP terms and partner reporting.
Whether Red Hat has just raised RHAMP or a partner is already reporting, we'll help you check the terms and the numbers before you commit.
We guarantee ROI on every project we undertake.
The Red Hat Asset Management Program (RHAMP) is an advisory managed service Red Hat has introduced to help customers proactively manage their Red Hat subscriptions. Red Hat offers it as an alternative to traditional subscription reviews. Customers review RHAMP contract terms with their Red Hat account team, then define a statement of work with an authorized RHAMP partner. The partner starts with tool configuration and an entitlement baseline report, then provides ongoing entitlement and usage reporting and subscription planning.
It depends on the contract terms Red Hat offers you and how accurate your subscription records are today. If your deployments across virtual, container, and cloud environments aren't well documented, the partner's baseline could identify shortfalls you'll need to resolve. Have the terms and your data reviewed independently before you sign.
Red Hat presents RHAMP as an alternative to traditional reviews. Whether joining limits Red Hat's right to review your subscriptions, and under what conditions, depends on the contract terms you agree to. We check those terms before you sign.
LicenseHawk can work alongside your authorized RHAMP partner, validating the entitlement baseline and usage reports against your own records. If reporting shows a shortfall, we'll check how each deployment was counted. Red Hat's RHAMP overview describes regular optimization as a way to offset shortfalls at your commercial pricing terms, so we'll also look at whether optimizing your subscriptions could reduce it.
We scope each engagement around whether you're evaluating RHAMP or already in it, and around the size and complexity of your Red Hat estate. We'll put together a proposal once we understand your situation, and we guarantee ROI on every project we undertake.
Most RHAMP evaluations take 4 to 6 weeks. If RHAMP reporting shows a shortfall or Red Hat opens an audit, defense work takes 8 to 12 weeks. If you're facing a decision deadline with Red Hat, we can speed up the work.
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