License Entitlements

A licensed product requires one or more entitlements. An entitlement represents a license agreement associated with the licensed product. For example, if ProductA is your licensed product, you might need an OEM entitlement to represent your ProductA licenses obtained through OEM agreements. You might also need a Per-Installation entitlement that represents ProductA licenses obtained through a site agreement.

The License Entitlements panel lets you create a new entitlement for the licensed product. The entitlement includes the catalog products and discovered products you’ve associated with the licensed product.

If you are creating multiple licensed products (or adding discovered products to multiple licensed products that already exist), the new entitlement is assigned to each licensed product.

Description

Specify a description for the license entitlement. You might want to use text that easily associates the physical license agreement with the entitlement.

License Model

Select one of the following license models:

  • Per-Installation: Each installation of the entitlement’s discovered products consumes a license.

  • OEM: You specify the devices covered by the entitlement. For each covered device, a license is consumed whether or not any of the entitlement’s discovered products are installed on the device.

    If you use an OEM license model for the entitlement, you should associate only one discovered product with the entitlement. If multiple discovered products are assigned to an OEM entitlement, consumption is limited to the total number of covered devices. Remaining installations overflow to any Per-Installation entitlements or become unresolved installations.

    For example, assume an OEM entitlement with 10 licenses includes two discovered products (DP1 and DP2). You assign 10 devices to the entitlement and each device has both products installed. Of the 20 discovered product installations (10 for DP1 and 10 for DP2), only 10 are covered by the 10 licenses. The others become unresolved installations.

    In addition to limiting an OEM entitlement to one discovered product, we recommend that you organize all OEM entitlements for different products into different licenses, so that each license product includes only the OEM entitlements for that product.

    For example, you have two OEM versions of ProductA installed in your environment: ProductA V6 and ProductA V7. You also have two versions of ProductB: ProductB V6 and ProductB V7. We recommend that you create separate licensed product for each. Therefore, you would have licensed ProductA with a ProductA V6 OEM entitlement and a ProductA V7 OEM entitlement. You might also have another type of entitlement for ProductA, such as a ProductA V6 Per-Named User entitlement, based on your other ProductA installations. For ProductB, you would have a licensed product with a ProductB V6 OEM entitlement, a ProductB V7 OEM entitlement, and any other types of ProductB entitlements.

  • Machine: You specify the devices covered by the entitlement. For each covered device, a license is consumed only if one of the entitlement’s discovered products is installed on the device.

    We recommend that you follow the best practices discussed for OEM entitlements when using Machine entitlements.

  • Per-User: Each user consumes a single license for any installations of the entitlement’s discovered products, regardless of the number of installations.

    For example, if the entitlement’s two discovered products (DP1 and DP2) are both installed on User1’s device, User1 consumes one license. Or, if DP1 is installed on one of User1’s devices and DP1 and DP2 are installed on another of User1’s devices, User1 still consumes only one of the entitlement’s licenses.

  • Per-Named User: Identical to the Per-User model, except you specify the users covered by the entitlement.

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