Installation Data - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

Entitlements are processed in the following order (most restrictive to least restrictive):
1. OEM: Covers an installation only if it is on a specified device.
2. Machine: Covers an installation only if it is on a specified device.
3. Named User: Covers an installation only if it is associated with a specified user.
4. Per User (with Installations > 1): Covers an installation only if it is associated with a user
that has the product installed at least twice.
5. Per Installation: Covers an installation on any device.
6. Per User (with Installations = 1): Covers an installation associated with any user.
7. Manual: Covers the manually specified number of installations.
If, after processing all of a licensed product's entitlements, there are discovered product installations
that have not been consumed by a entitlement, the Software Compliance Engine reports the licensed
product as undercompliant (more installations than licenses). Each unconsumed installation is also
reported as an unresolved installation on the licensed product's Compliance Status page.

1.3 Installation Data

As explained in
installations of a product is one of the three primary pieces of information that is required to
determine the product's license compliance. Your installation data can come from two different
sources:
Inventory Data: Asset Inventory scans the devices in your ZENworks Management Zone and
saves the installed software product information to the ZENworks database. Asset Management
maps the installation information to discovered products. When a discovered product is
associated with an entitlement, the discovered product's installations are eligible to consume
one of the entitlement's licenses.
Using Inventory to provide the installation data is the recommended approach because it is the
most automated. If a product is installed or uninstalled on a device, the change is automatically
reflected in the data (and the corresponding discovered product) after the next Inventory scan.
In addition, using Inventory data provides the ability to use both device-based and user-based
license models (see
Manual Data: You manually edit an entitlement (in ZENworks Control Center) to provide the
number of product installations. This requires you to know how many devices have the product
installed, and to change the number whenever installations are added or removed. In addition,
you are limited to using only installation-based license models; device-based and user-based
license models are not available (see
An entitlement can use only one source for its installation data. However, a licensed product can
include multiple entitlements, with some entitlements drawing installation data from Inventory data
and other entitlements using manual data.
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