11.0 Working with Software Collections

In some cases, the ZENworks Knowledgebase might not include a discovered product for a software suite you own. There are various reasons for this, ranging from the suite not yet being defined in the current Knowledgebase to the suite installation not registering as a suite.

A software collection is an administrator-defined suite. You create the software collection and add discovered products as members of the collection. When all of the member products are discovered on a device, the installation count for the software collection is incremented rather than the count for the individual member products. You can assign the software collection to a licensed product just as you would assign an individual discovered product or a suite discovered product.

The following sections explain the tasks associated with managing purchase records: