Understanding License Management
This chapter contains articles about the License Management solution providing an overview and explanations of product concepts and features.
Basics
- How the tool works
- How data is processed
- What is a fingerprint
- What is a software product
- What is a license model
- What is a license requirement
- What is license assignment
- What is consolidation of license requirements
- What is a license
- What is a license pool
- How does license entitlement work
- What is a contract or a Volume License Agreement
- Data object model
License Intelligence Service (LIS)
- Purpose and Service Levels
- Updating License Intelligence Service data (LIS)
- How to configure LIS Update data provider
More articles about LIS: License Intelligence Service - Matrix42 Self-Service Help Center
background data processing
Dashboards and reports
Advanced principles
- Logic behind license entitlement
- What is consolidation of license requirements
- Consolidating license requirements for suites
- Examples of software suite consolidation
- Automatic change of license model with downgrades
- Extent of license model change with downgrades
- Licensing load-balanced virtual machines
- License mobility with virtual machines
- Configure remote application usage and platform access tracking
- Create license requirements for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Manage compliance with 'concurrent use' license model
- Settings relevant for creation of license requirements
- Single engine activation for Software, Asset, and Contract Management
Vendor-specific topics
- Microsoft Power BI Reporting Server | Core (Full Virtualization on SA; Mobility on SA)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft SQL Server - license requirements with virtualization
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Microsoft Extended Security Updates (ESU)
- Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud
- Oracle MySQL
- Oracle Java SE
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