Setting up a site license

In the Mid Tier interface, the site license type recognizes the product as licensed for an entire site within the company. It can be restricted to a region, site group, or site. The site is determined by the site of the computer system on which the product is installed. This license type counts the instances of the software. The connection question for this license type could be - Enter the site. 

The following figure shows how to set up a site license:

To set up a site license and calculate compliance

1. In Mid Tier, on the IT Home page, select Product Catalog > Product Catalog console.
2. Create a new Product Catalog entry for Product Type as Software and CI Type as Product.
3. Click the Model/Version tab and enter values for the Model/Version and Market Version, and set Requires Contract to Yes.
4. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI and create a new Product CI by using the Product Catalog entry.
5. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI and create a new Computer System CI. Populate Location Information.
6. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > Manage CI, search for the Product CI you created in step 4, and relate it to a Computer System CI as a component or hosted system component.
7. On the IT Home page, select Contract Management > Contract Console and create a new software contract. 
8. On the newly created software contract create a license certificate. Use the product categorization from step 2. 
9. Select the license type Site. For the connection details, you can choose to connect the certificate based on Region, Site Group or Site. 
10. Populate the value based on how you want to connect the license. 
11. On the IT Home page, select Asset Management > SAM Console > Manage License Jobs.
12. Create a new license job.

13. Run the license job. The compliance details for the license certificate counts the number of Computer System CIs with the same Site as the certificate where the software is installed.

    Example

    If there are two Computer System CIs with Location Information populated for the site Headquarters Building 1.31, the License Certificate connection is for Headquarters Building 1.31, and the Product CI is related, then two licenses are shown as deployed.