Preparing Demographic Data; Adding Demographic Data To Devices - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

Preparing Demographic Data

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Before you can allocate licenses based on demographic data (departments, sites, or cost centers),
you need to ensure that your devices and purchase records contain the appropriate demographic
data. The following sections provide information:
Section 13.1, "Adding Demographic Data to Devices," on page 113
Section 13.2, "Adding Demographic Data to Purchase Records," on page 114
Section 13.3, "Adding Demographic Data to Purchase Record Import Files," on page 115
Section 13.4, "Making Demographic Data Consistent Between Devices and Purchase
Records," on page 116
If you plan to allocate licenses directly to devices, you can ignore demographic data and continue
with Chapter 14, "Allocating Licenses," on page

13.1 Adding Demographic Data to Devices

Each device's Inventory data contains three demographic fields: Site, Department, and Cost Center.
Adding this demographic data to devices does the following:
Creates the list of demographics (for example, Site1, CostCenterA, or Department12) to which
licenses can be allocated. When you allocate licenses, you can allocate them only to sites,
departments, and cost centers that already exist in Inventory device data or purchase record
data.
Enables a device's installations to be tracked against the license allocations. For example, you
allocate 10 ProductA licenses to Site1. If Device1 is associated with Site1, Device1's
installation of ProductA is tracked against Site1's allocations. Otherwise, it is not.
Enables you to use the Initialize Allocations Wizard to create a licensed product's initial
allocations based on the devices' demographic data. For example, assume that you are
initializing license allocations for ProductA based on the Site demographic. Device1, Device2,
and Device3 have ProductA installed. Device1 and Device2 are assigned to Site1 and Device3
is assigned to Site2. The wizard allocates two licenses to Site1 (for Device1 and Device2) and
one license to Site2 (for Device3).
If all your license allocations will use the same demographic (Site, Department, or Cost Center), you
can add only that demographic data to each device. For example, if all demographic allocations are
going to be Department allocations, you only need to add a department to each device. If you will
have a mixture of demographic allocations, you should add a site, department, and cost center to
each device.
There are three ways you can add demographic data to a device:
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Use ZENworks Control Center to manually enter the data for each device. To do so, go to a
device's Inventory page, click the Detailed Hardware/Software Inventory link, click Edit (at the
bottom of the page), then provide information in the Site, Department, and Cost Center fields.
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