Licenses, capabilities and access rights

To be able to work with packages and their associated objects, an administrator requires a specific license, capabilities and access rights on these BMC Client Management - Software Distribution objects.

Licenses

Software distribution is part of the BMC Client Management - Software Distribution and requires a specific license, Software Distribution which is based on the number of devices assigned to the created packages. If the license is exceeded no more device assignments can be assigned to packages.

Access rights and capabilities

To be able to create, manage and assign the different package types, an administrator needs specific capabilities and access rights:

• To access the main Packages node and all its subnodes the View packages capability is required.
• The Manage capability is required to create, modify or delete a package.
• The Assign capability is required to assign a package to a target and the assign access right on the package. In this case the administrator also requires at least the View capability on devices or device groups and at least read access to the target objects.
• To publish a package the administrator also requires the Manage capability and the View capability and read access on the device on which the package is to be published.