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What is Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on

Overview

The Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on allows maintaining compliance for Azure Hybrid Benefits that are used by Windows Server virtual machines and SQL Server virtual machines as well as by SQL servers, SQL elastic pools, SQL databases, and SQL managed instances.

This add-on can be installed from Matrix42 Extension Gallery.

Once it is installed, two new data providers will be available in the Administration application: Azure Hybrid Benefit Inventory – Database Services and Azure Hybrid Benefit Inventory – Virtual Machines.

Prerequisites

This extension is supported by  Enterprise Service Management version 12.0.2.1231 and higher as well as version 11.0.2 starting from hotfix 11.0.2.3571.

The Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on requires that the Generic Inventory Data Provider add-on and the Cloud Service add-on are installed as well. Both add-ons will be installed automatically when installing the Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on. 

The Cloud Service add-on is hidden in the Extension Gallery and currently it is used only for purposes of the Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on.

In order to use the Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on, you need to have the M42SoftwareAssetManagementForSaaS license certificate.

The DWP Subscription is the prerequisite to using the Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on.

To use this add-on successfully, you will also need to configure the authorization settings on the portal and then create a service connection object in Matrix42 Enterprise Service Management.

The Azure Hybrid Benefit add-on works correctly and ensures compliance only for software products and license models that come from and are managed by License Intelligence Service (LIS). If you manage your software products without LIS, the add-on will not take into account such data.

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