Setting up an AR System fixed and floating license

This procedure illustrates how to configure this license type to calculate BMC Asset Management fixed and floating licenses. The following diagram illustrates how to set up an AR System fixed and floating license:

To set up an AR System fixed and floating license and calculate compliance

1. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} Create a Product Catalog entry for CI Type Software and Product Type Product CI.
   Your categorization for tracking fixed and floating licenses must follow the way the licenses are shown in the Add or Remove license form. For example, BMC:Asset Mgmt, BMC:Change Mgmt, BMC:Incident Mgmt, AR User, and so on. Otherwise the product will not connect to the license certificate. The product categorization must be exactly as follows to run compliance on BMC Asset Management licenses:
   
   Tier 1 = BMC:Asset Mgmt
   Tier 2 = BMC:Asset Mgmt
   Tier 3 = BMC:Asset Mgmt
   Product Name = BMC:Asset Mgmt

2. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} Click the Model/Version tab and enter values for the Model/Version and Market Version, and set Requires Contract to Yes.

3. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI and create a new Computer System CI.
   On the specifications tab, complete the DNS Host Name field with the name of the AR System server to run compliance on.

4. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI and create a new Product CI using the Product Catalog entry as specified in step 2.

5. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} On the IT Home page choose Asset Management > Manage CI, search for the recently created Computer System CI, and relate the Product CI from step 4 to the Computer System CI as a component or hosted system component.

6. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} In the Application Administration Console, select Custom Configuration tab > Asset Management > Advanced Options > Setup Server Info for AR System License Type and enter server connection information that will be used for the AR System Fixed and Floating license.
   This should be the same AR Server as you entered in the DNS Host Name field in step 4 because the license engine uses this as part of the criteria when running compliance.

7. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} On the IT Home page, select Contract Management > Contract Console, and create a new software contract.
   From the newly created software contract create a new License Certificate. Use the product categorization from step 2. For the license type choose AR System Fixed and Floating license. Use the server name from step 4 in the connection details.

8. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > SAM console > Manage License Jobs, and create a new license job for the AR Server fixed and floating license using all categorization tiers populated.

9. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} Run the license job.

10. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} Review the compliance details on the license certificate and observe the deployed values for fixed and floating licenses.
    The license engine calculates compliance by comparing the number of fixed and floating licenses in the AR System Administration Console > System > General Add or Remove Licenses form for BMC:Asst Mgmt User Fixed and Floating, to the number of BMC:Asset Mgmt User fixed and floating licenses applied to users in the User form and reports compliance.

11. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} To verify the number of fixed licenses select the AR System Administration Console > System > General and open the Add or Remove Licenses form.

12. Unknown macro: {multi-excerpt} Open the User form and search for %BMC:Asset Mgmt User Fixed% in the Application License.
    This must match what the compliance details show for fixed licenses. To determine the floating licenses, look at the Server License Information form for the BMC:Asset Mgmt User Floating form. Software license management uses this number when calculating the Number of Users Floating Deployed value in the Compliance dialog box.
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