Manually Adding Device Allocations - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

Also creates new allocations if necessary. For example, if a purchase record includes
ProductA licenses that are assigned to a DepartmentZ (a new department not listed in
ProductA's allocations), a new allocation for DepartmentZ is created.
4c Click Apply to save any changes.
5 Click the License Allocations tab.
6 In the Demographic Allocations panel, click Add, then fill in the following fields:
Demographic: Select the desired demographic (site, department, or cost center) from the list.
Allocated Quantity: Specify the number of licenses to allocate to the demographic.
7 Click OK to add the allocation to the list.
The following information is provided for the allocation:
Device Count: The number of devices assigned to the demographic. Click the number to
display a list of the devices.
Allocated Quantity: The number of licenses allocated to the demographic. You can
change this number to allocate more or fewer licenses.
Installed Quantity: The number of product installations on devices assigned to the
demographic.
Variance: The difference between the number of allocated licenses and the number of
product installations assigned to the demographic:
Allocated Quantity - Installed Quantity = Variance
A negative variance indicates more product installations than allocated licenses, and a
positive variance indicates more allocated licenses than product installations.

14.3 Manually Adding Device Allocations

You can allocate licenses to a specific devices. The devices can have the product installed or not
installed. For example, you purchase 10 licenses of ProductA. You can allocate the licenses to the
target devices before ProductA is even installed on the devices.
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click the Asset Management tab.
2 On the License Management page, click Licensed Products.
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