License Compliance Concepts; License Compliance Components - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

License Compliance Concepts

1
Ensuring that your organization owns the licenses needed to cover the products your users have
installed is a critical component of license management. At the same time, you want to minimize
costs by purchasing only the number of licenses that you really need.
® ®
Novell ZENworks Asset Management helps you attain this balance by monitoring and reporting
the license compliance status (compliant, overcompliant, or undercompliant) of your software
products.
The following sections introduce the concepts you should understand to effectively use Asset
Management to manage software license compliance in your organization:
Section 1.1, "License Compliance Components," on page 15
Section 1.2, "Entitlements," on page 18
Section 1.3, "Installation Data," on page 22
Section 1.4, "License Data," on page 23
Section 1.5, "Suites and Software Collections," on page 23
Section 1.6, "Version Upgrades," on page 23

1.1 License Compliance Components

To know whether or not a software product's deployment within your organization complies with
your software product license records, you must reconcile three important pieces of information
about the product:
Entitlement: The rights to the software product, including how, where, and how long the
product can be used. Can the user use the product only on the OEM machine with which it
came? Can the user install the product on multiple machines under one license? Does each
installation of the product require a license? Can the product be used forever, or does it have an
expiration date? This information is contained in the software product's license agreement or in
a software purchase contract.
Licenses: The number of licenses of the software product that your organization has purchased.
Typically, this information comes from purchase records provided by the software vendor.
Installations: The actual number of installations of the software product in your organization.
ZENworks Asset Inventory can provide this information by scanning the devices in your
organization (as long as the devices are registered in your ZENworks Management Zone). Or,
you can manually provide this information.
The following illustration shows the components that Asset Management uses to bring your product
information together:
License Compliance Concepts
1
15