Managing software licenses

You can use the software license management feature in BMC Asset Management to facilitate, focus, and follow-through on compliance. This section describes how to use BMC Asset Management to manage software licenses and their compliance within your organization.

The following topics are provided:

• Creating a software contract
• Reviewing a software contract
• Adding a license certificate to a software contract
• Grouping certificates
• Manually managing certificate groups
• Releasing, viewing, and reserving licenses
• Interface to software license and hardware inventory reservation
• Relating licenses to users and devices
• Adding work information
• Managing jobs that automatically attach CIs to license certificates
• Reviewing a software license certificate
• Relating one license certificate to another license certificate
• Adding, modifying or removing product categorization from a license certificate
• Configuring software usage
• Viewing software usage details
• Upgrading licenses
• Determining which CIs use a license certificate
• Manually managing CIs attached to a license certificate
• Manually specifying a license certificate for a software CI
• Recording the purchase cost for a license
• Porting license types
• Adding additional contract details

For additional information about managing software licenses, you can view the following BMC Communities blog postings:

• Getting started in software license management (Part 1) - Contracts and license certificates
• Getting started in software license management (Part 2) - Software
• Getting started in software license management (Part 3) - License jobs