Associating a product with a license

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Use the Licenses application to add information to the license record about the software product that the license pertains to.

Before you begin

Before starting this task, make sure that a record already exists in the Licenses application for the license whose product information you want to add. If not, you need to create a draft of the license record before doing this task.

About this task

This task provides software product details that your business might require to help it manage its licenses and establish software entitlements. When you link software to a license, you define what you are entitled to do with that software, as dictated by the license agreement.

The steps for associating a product with a license follow.

Procedure

  1. On the navigation bar, click Open Menu > Assets > Licenses.
  2. In the Licenses application, open the license whose license product information you want to add.
  3. In the Associated Product section, associate one or more software products with the license.
    Do not specify a software product name that is a variant of the manufacturer's product name. Instead, manage variants in Software Catalog application and use the product name-and version-identified in the license.
    To make the association, do one of the following:
    • Click Select Software. In the Select Software window, select the product or products that you want to associate with the software license.
    • Click New Row. In the Software field, select the name of the product that you want to associate with the software license.

    At least one product must be associated with a license before you can change its status from Draft to Active.

  4. On the toolbar, click Save.