Adding software license units

In this window you add the license units that you want to manage. You can select either a product with all its suites and applications, a suite with its applications or individual applications.

Two filters are available to limit the list of available software to those you are interested in:

• The Only Show Discovered Software box is checked by default. This means that currently only those products are shown that were found on at least one device in your infrastructure. To see all software products provided by the software catalog uncheck this box.
• The Only Show Managed Products box is unchecked by default. This means that all products of the catalog are shown, independent if you have already treated them in the software catalog or not. Check this box to display only the products you have already treated.
   You can find more information on this topic in Changing a product status .

This window provides you with three different methods to find the license units to add:

• By default the Select a software option is selected, which sorts all license units according to their manufacturer in alphabetical order. You can select your manufacturer from the drop-down list of the Manufacturer pane. The tree box below displays all license units of the selected manufacturer according to the selected filters.
• Select the Category icon to the left to display the available products according to their category. The content of drop-down list of the Manufacturer pane now offers the different main categories of products. A second drop-down list offers subcategories depending on your selection in the first list.
• If you select the Search option, you can search for a specific software directly. New drop-down lists appear in the Manufacturer pane for further filtering:
  • Select from the Type list, if you are searching for a product, a suite or an application.
  • Select from the Field list the field, in which the search is to be done, that is if the value to be entered in the text box below is to be searched in the Name , Category , or Manufacturer Name box.
  • Select from the Operator list the operator to apply for the search.

  • Enter in the Value box the partial or complete value to be searched. All results are displayed in the tree box below.

    Warning

    Note:

    If you are using the search to add applications, this can result in a very long list in the Selected License Units pane. An application can be part of more than one suites or products, and all of its parents are listed in this box.

1. Click Add License Units above the list box.

2. Select your license unit via one of the three possible ways explained above.

   InformationIf you found and selected your license unit via the search and it is an application, you need to click the Add icon between the two tree boxes. For all other cases the units are added automatically as soon as you select them in the left tree box.The selected units are added to the Selected License Units in the right pane.

   Warning

   Note:

   If you find at some time that you need to add more suites or applications to a selected product, you can double-click the product in the right page and the focus of the left pane returns directly to the selected product and its children.

3. Click OK to confirm.
4. Enter the number of licenses you purchased for this unit in the Quantity of Licenses column.
5. Click Next .