Discovered products are used to associate installations with licensed products. Each discovered product includes information about its total number of installations on devices in the Management Zone. When you associate a discovered product with a licensed products’ entitlement, its installations become eligible to consume the entitlement’s licenses.
The following sections explain the tasks associated with managing entitlements:
Section 8.1, How Installed Software Products Become Discovered Products
Section 8.4, Excluding Discovered Products from Compliance Calculations
Section 8.5, Adding Discovered Products to Licensed Products
Section 8.6, Adding Discovered Products to Software Collections
Section 8.8, Adjusting a Discovered Product’s Installation Count
Section 8.11, Viewing the Inventory Products Included in a Discovered Product