License pool item

About

License pools are used for storing and managing software licenses in Miradore Management Suite.

Please check the following articles to learn how to use Miradore for software license management:

About license management

Adding software licenses to Miradore

Form content

Tab name

Description

Main

The configuration item attributes and values.

Description of license pool attributes

Event log

All events related to this item are recorded and represented here.

Bindings

Shows the list of assets or users assigned to this license. This tab is only available if the licensing model is "installed instance" or "named users".

Analyze > Allocated licenses

This view shows the assets or users to whom the licenses have been allocated to.

Analyze > Allocations needed

This view shows you the devices which have the software installed without a license assigned. The view also shows user information which helps you to get compliant with the software licensing rules, no matter whether the license is user or device based.

Analyze > Allocation history

History information about the license allocations and unallocations made in this license pool.

 

Form tools and actions

Task

Description

Add software

With this task, administrators, license administrators and software approvers can define what software the licenses in this pool permit to use.

Running this task opens a popup in which the user can specify the permitted software in three different ways:

  • Choose permitted software from the list of Managed software items. Hold Ctrl-key to select multiple.

  • Copy all permitted software form another License pool item.

  • Create a new Managed software item based on software catalog records.

Close license

Unused license pools can be closed by using this.

 

Additional information

Software identification using partial matches

Related processes

License management

Software management