Working With Discovered Products; How Installed Software Products Become Discovered Products; Section 8.1, "How Installed Software Products Become Discovered Products - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

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Discovered products are used to associate installations with licensed products. Each discovered
product includes information about its total number of installations on devices in the Management
Zone. When you associate a discovered product with a licensed products' entitlement, its
installations become eligible to consume the entitlement's licenses.
The following sections explain the tasks associated with managing entitlements:
Section 8.1, "How Installed Software Products Become Discovered Products," on page 69
Section 8.2, "Viewing the Discovered Products List," on page 70
Section 8.3, "Filtering the Discovered Products List," on page 70
Section 8.4, "Excluding Discovered Products from Compliance Calculations," on page 72
Section 8.5, "Adding Discovered Products to Licensed Products," on page 72
Section 8.6, "Adding Discovered Products to Software Collections," on page 74
Section 8.7, "Viewing a Discovered Product's Installations," on page 74
Section 8.8, "Adjusting a Discovered Product's Installation Count," on page 75
Section 8.9, "Assigning a Standards Category," on page 77
Section 8.10, "Viewing the Inventory Products Included in a Discovered Product," on page 78
Section 8.11, "Refreshing Compliance Status," on page 79
8.1 How Installed Software Products Become
Discovered Products
Asset Management includes a product Knowledgebase that includes over 27,000 predefined
discovered products. The following process is used to map installed software products to the
Knowledgebase discovered products:
1. Asset Inventory scans devices to collect information about installed software products. These
installed software products are referred to as Inventory products.
2. Asset Management filters the Inventory products through the Knowledgebase to map the
Inventory products to discovered products. During this process, the following occurs:
All related versions, service releases, and language versions are mapped to the same
minor-version discovered product. For example, Product A 5.5, Product A 5.5 (JP) and
Product A 5.5.1 are consolidated under one Product A 5.5 discovered product.
Products that do not require licensing, such as browsers and viewers, are excluded.
Software suites and their member products are identified.
3. Asset Management sets the discovered products' installation quantity equal to the total
installations for its mapped Inventory products.
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