Device Allocations

The Device Allocations panel lets you allocate licenses to specific devices. For each device you add to the panel, the following information is displayed:

Machine Name, Login Name, and IP Address: Standard information about the device, including the login name of the user who was logged in at the time the device was inventoried.
Site, Department, Cost Center: Demographic data about the device. If one or more of the fields is empty, the device’s inventory data does not contain that information.
Installed Quantity: The number of installations of the licensed product on the device. This should typically be 1.
Duplicate Allocation: Includes a check mark if the device’s installation is also included in a demographic allocation.
Installations with No Allocations: Displays the number of installations that are not allocated a license either through a demographic allocation or a device allocation. Click the number to display the list of installations.

The following table lists the tasks you can perform to manage device allocations.

Task	Steps	Additional Details
Create initial allocations	Locate the licensed product in the Licensed Product list (Asset Management tab > License Management tab > Licensed Products). Select the check box next to the licensed product, click Action > Initialize Allocations > OK. Complete the wizard. Click Help if you need more information about any of the wizard pages.	If you don’t want to manually add devices, you can use the Initialize Allocations Wizard to create device allocations. The wizard uses Inventory data as the source for the allocation information.
Allocate a license to a device	Click Add > Devices with Product Installed if the device you want to allocate a license to has the product installed. or Click Add > Any Devices if the device you want to allocate a license to does not have the product installed. The Search for Device dialog box is displayed. In the Device Type field, select whether you want to search Managed Devices, Inventoried Devices, Managed or Inventoried Devices, ZAM Migrated Devices, or All. If you are not sure of the device type, select All. To limit the search, use the filters to create the search criteria. If you don’t create filters, all devices (or all devices with the product installed) are displayed, up to the maximum display number. Specify the maximum number of devices you want the search to display. Select the columns you want displayed in the resulting search dialog box. Control-click to select multiple fields. Click Search to display a Select Device dialog box that lists the search results. Select the devices you want to add, then click OK.
Remove a license allocation from device	Select the device whose license allocation you want to remove. Click Remove.