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Understanding units of a licensed software

This tab displays all applications or products that are part of the licensed software. It is only displayed if the units of the license are selected from the Software Catalog.

In the line above the table you can define how the license units are to be included in the licensed software. You have the following choices:

  • Select all to include all listed units in the licensed software. This means that all units listed below must be installed on a device, otherwise this licensed software is not recognized as such and is not decounted in the license count.
  • Select any to define that if even only one of the license units below is found installed on a device, this is counted as this licensed software and is decounted in the license count.

The Units tab displays all license units that are part of the currently selected licensed software. If the license unit is a product, all applications that are added to this product by the vendor are then automatically added to this license unit, after the Custom Applications is updated.

It displays the following information about the license units:

Parameter

Description

Name

This column shows the names of all license units. A license unit in this case is any type of software application or tool.

Version

The version number of the license unit.

Type

The type of the license unit.

Manufacturer

This field displays the name of the manufacturer of the respective license unit.

Category Name

This field displays which type of application the license unit belongs to, for example, if it is a browser, an application server software, and so on.

Edition name

This field displays the edition of the product.

Product

This field displays, if the license unit is of type product, that is the most encompassign of all possible unit types.

Adding license units from a software catalog

  1. Select Edit> Add License Unitsapplication_plus.png .
     The Select License Units dialog box appears.
  2. (Optional) Check the Only Show Managed Products box to only display those products of the catalog that you have defined as managed products.

  3. (Optional) Uncheck the Only Show Managed Products box to only display those products of the catalog that were found installed on at least one device of your infrastructure.

    InformationIf you leave this option checked, you cannot provision for new software that is not yet installed on any device, as the new version or new software is not made available in the list below.

  4. Select the vendor of your license unit from the drop-down list.
     The list of Available License Units in the box below changes to display all available products for the chosen vendor.
  5. To select the license unit you have the following choices:
    1. To select the complete product with all its applications check the box ( application_plus.png) of the respective product.
       The selected product is added directly to the list of Selected License Units in the right box.

    2. To select one or more of the product's applications, click the product, then check the boxes for those of its applications ( application_plus.png) that are to be part of the license unit.
       The selected applications are added directly to the list of Selected License Units in the right box.

      InformationYour license unit can have one or more of each of the different types.

  6. Click OK to add the license unit and close the window.

If the licensed software is already assigned to a device or group it is automatically re-evaluated.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*

BMC Client Management 12.8