Setting up the software contracts and certificates

This use case describes how to set up software contracts and certificates in the Mid Tier interface.

Scenario

Calbro Systems uses multiple software applications for doing their business. It uses multiple products of different versions across the organization that they purchase from the same vendors.

Calbro wants to set up the software contract and software license management process for Microsoft Corporation and Adobe System applications being used across the organization.

Benefit

Calbro Systems can easily monitor license compliance and software usage for the products installed.

Workflow

The following table describes the typical actions that are taken to set up the software contracts and licenses:

Console	User	Action	Reference
Contract Management console	Contract Admin	Create a software license contract for the Microsoft products and Adobe products.	Creating and updating contracts
Contract Management console	Contract Admin	Create and add the license certificate to each product. When you create the certificates, make sure that: All the certificates are in Executed state so that they can be used by the SWLM engine. The value of the Engine Connection field on the Certificate is set to Yes, so that the Software License Engine is able to connect to the certificate. Because the Adobe licenses were purchased in multiple purchase orders, create a certificate for each purchase.	Working-with-a-software-license-certificate
Contract Management console	Contract Admin	Group the certificates based on company, license model, and product categorization.	Working-with-a-software-license-certificate
Manage License job console	Contract Admin	Create a license job for Microsoft and Adobe products. Run the jobs	Managing-jobs-that-automatically-attach-CIs-to-license-certificates
Software Asset Management console	Contract Admin	Schedule the license job.	Managing-jobs-that-automatically-attach-CIs-to-license-certificates

Result

Contracts and licenses are set up for Calbro.