Software Asset Management Guide
Overview
This guide provides an overview of product features and related technologies. In addition, it contains recommendations on best practices, tutorials for getting started, and troubleshooting information for common situations.
Updating an extension may run into error "package installation exception: the specified path, file name, or both are too long". This is a known issue of ESM/DWP core product, recorded as PRB37948. In case of ocurrence, please uninstall the extension you wanted to update and re-install it.
- Master Data
- Managing a single source of common business data shared and used across an organization.
- Azure Hybrid Benefit (Extension)
- What is Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on
- Understanding the grace period of SQL Server licenses assigned to Azure Hybrid Benefit
- Uninstalling the Azure Hybrid Benefit extension
- Configuring and running the Azure Hybrid Benefit Inventory – Database Services data provider
- Ensuring compliance of Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server virtual machines and database services
- Ensuring compliance of Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server
- Introduction into Azure Hybrid Benefit compliance
- Release Notes for Azure Hybrid Benefit
- Azure Inventory (Extension)
- Attribute mapping for Azure Inventory data provider
- Configuring and running the Azure Inventory data provider
- Configuring a Microsoft Azure storage account
- Creating the service connection for Azure Inventory data provider
- Release Notes for Azure Inventory
- Setting permissions for scanning Azure subscriptions
- Setting permissions for scanning Azure virtual machines
- Understanding charts for cloud services
- Uninstalling the the Azure Inventory extension
- Viewing dependencies for cloud services
- What data is imported for the cloud services
- What data is imported for the Windows and Linux virtual machines
- What is Azure Inventory
- Cloud Cost Management (Extension)
- Getting started with Cloud Cost Management
- Setup Cloud Costs Data Provider for CSP Contract
- Connect to Google Cloud Platform
- Installing and configuring the Matrix42 Cloud Costs data provider
- Working with teams (cloud tenants)
- Cross-charging of cloud costs in Service Catalog
- Cost accounting for cloud resources
- Release Notes for the Cloud Costs extension
- Entra Enterprise Applications (Extension)
- Configuring and running the Entra Enterprise Application Inventory data provider
- Creating the service connection for the Entra Enterprise Application Inventory data provider
- Release Notes for Entra Enterprise Applications
- Tracking usage of Entra applications
- Uninstalling the Entra Enterprise Applications extension
- What is the Entra Enterprise Applications extension
- Generic Inventory (Extension)
- Getting started with Generic Inventory
- Introduction to creating a Generic Inventory data collector workflow
- How to update attributes of the Computer configuration item
- Sample data collector workflow for Generic Inventory extension
- Create custom data provider based on Generic Inventory extension
- Automatic assignment of principal user for imported devices
- Release Notes for Generic Inventory Data Provider
- Microsoft 365 Inventory (Extension)
- What is Microsoft 365 Inventory add-on
- Creating the service connection for Microsoft 365 Inventory
- Configuring and running the Microsoft 365 Inventory data provider
- Working with data imported by the Microsoft 365 Inventory data provider
- Uninstalling the Microsoft 365 Inventory data provider
- Attribute mapping for Microsoft 365 Inventory
- Charts for the Microsoft 365 Inventory
- Release Notes for Microsoft 365 Inventory
- Oracle Compliance (Extension)
- Archive of Release Notes for Oracle Compliance
- Collecting data for Java installations
- Collecting data from Oracle databases
- Components of Oracle Compliance
- Employee-based licensing for Oracle Java products
- Excluding already licensed Oracle Java products from automatic creation of license requirements
- General information about data collection
- How to import scan files from a remote folder
- How to import scan files manually
- How to setup automatic import of scan files
- How to use Oracle Compliance
- Managing Oracle GLAS (Global License Advisory Services) exports
- Release Notes for Oracle Compliance
- Running the scripts on Unix/Linux
- Running the scripts on Windows
- User-based licensing for Oracle Java products with Named User Plus metric
- [Archive] Azure Hybrid Benefit (Extension)
- What is Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on
- Permissions required for scanning Azure subscriptions
- Creating the service connection for Azure Hybrid Benefit data providers
- Configuring and running the Azure Hybrid Benefit data providers
- Attribute mapping for Azure Hybrid Benefit data provider
- Ensuring compliance of Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server
- Understanding the grace period of SQL Server licenses assigned to Azure Hybrid Benefit
- Uninstalling the Azure Hybrid Benefit extension
- Release Notes for Azure Hybrid Benefit
- Ensuring compliance of Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server virtual machines and database services