Associating product versions to a software license contract

You can associate specific product versions to a software license contract in BMC Asset Management to facilitate software license compliance of specified software configuration items.

BMC Asset Management provides dynamic mechanisms to connect the software that has been deployed and represented in BMC CMDB. License certificates provide a definition of how to find the software in BMC CMDB and leverage information from the Product Catalog. The license engine uses this information to query BMC CMDB to find the new or updated software that has been deployed, and to connect that software to the appropriate license certificates. For more information about managing software licenses, see Setting up the Software License Management process in the BMC Asset Management online documentation.

To associate all product versions to a software license contract

1. Search for the products by specifying search criteria.
   See Searching for product entries in the Manage Products Console.
2. From the Products tab of the Search Results table, select the products for which you want to relate all versions to a software license contract.
3. From the Select Actions list, select Set > Requires Contract > Yes.
4. Click Perform.

To associate specific product versions to a software license contract

1. Search for the products by specifying search criteria
   See Searching for product entries in the Manage Products Console.

2. From the Products tab of the Search Results table, select one or more products.
   The versions associated with the selected products are displayed on the Model/Version tab.

3. From the Model/Version tab of the Search Results table, select the versions that you want to relate to a software license contract.
4. From the Select Actions list, select Set > Requires Contract > Yes.
5. Click Perform.