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ESI maintains a special table where deployed position count logic is maintained for certain publishers such as IBM (for PVUs) and Oracle (for Oracle's core factor table).  The table is global in nature and can be accessed in a read-only fashion by rules created for the Authorization Analyzer.  The AA supports one or more rules that perform look-ups into this table in order to retrieve the publisher's value that is required to compute the final license units required.  The table supports look-ups based on processor, chassis model, and maximum processor sockets - depending on how the individual rules of the publisher are organized.  

Rows in the table are assigned auto-discovered processor spellings, as required, as well as auto-discovered chassis spellings.  The MIE maintains a global list of all spellings of all processors ever auto-discovered, and that list is cross referenced by ESI into each record in the count logic table.  This allows auto-discovered processor information to be used to perform look-ups into the table.

The MIE also maintains a global list of all auto-discovered chassis spellings, to include manufacturer, product description, and model.  Auto-discovery may supply one, two, or all of those three fields - depending on what the manufacturer originally entered into the device.  The chassis information is used by IBM in the PVU lookups for some processor types.  For those rules that require chassis information, ESI maintains a cross-reference of the various ways auto-discovery has spelled the chassis information to the appropriate count logic records in the count logic table.  This allows auto-discovered chassis information to also match the appropriate count logic rule.