Working With Software Collections; How Software Collection Installations Are Counted - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

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In some cases, the ZENworks
software suite you own. There are various reasons for this, ranging from the suite not yet being
defined in the current Knowledgebase to the suite installation not registering as a suite.
A software collection is an administrator-defined suite. You create the software collection and add
discovered products as members of the collection. When all of the member products are discovered
on a device, the installation count for the software collection is incremented rather than the count for
the individual member products. You can assign the software collection to a licensed product just as
you would assign an individual discovered product or a suite discovered product.
The following sections explain the tasks associated with managing purchase records:
Section 11.1, "How Software Collection Installations are Counted," on page 105
Section 11.2, "Creating a Software Collection," on page 106
Section 11.3, "Adding Products to a Software Collection," on page 106
Section 11.4, "Deleting a Software Collection," on page 107
Section 11.5, "Creating a Software Collection Folder," on page 107
Section 11.6, "Moving a Software Collection," on page 108
11.1 How Software Collection Installations are
Counted
A software collection's member products can be required or non-required. Required member
products must be found on a device in order for the installation to qualify as a software collection
installation. Non-required member products, if installed on the machine, are considered part of the
software collection but are not required to be installed.
Consider the following example. SoftwareCollection includes three member products:
ProdA (required)
ProdB (required)
ProdC (non-required).
The member products are installed as follows:
Device1: ProdA, ProdC
Device2: ProdA, ProdB
Device3: ProdA, ProdB, ProdC
Device4: ProdA
The Discovered Products list would show the following:
SoftwareCollection: 2 installations (Device2, Device3)
ProdA: 2 installations (Device1, Device4)
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Knowledgebase might not include a discovered product for a
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