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:
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