About license allocation

Miradore license management provides an easy way to ensure the compliance of your software licenses by providing a possibility to automatize majority of allocation and removal of acquired licenses. In addition to automatic allocation of licenses, the licenses can also be allocated to and released from assets or users manually. Miradore license management offers support for a variety of different licensing models.

Licensing models

The following table presents different licensing models and describes how they are supported in Miradore.

Model	Support for automatic allocation	Support for manual allocation	Description
Concurrent users	-	Yes	This type of license permits only certain amount of users to use the software concurrently.
Named users	Yes	Yes	License based on named users is user specific, which means that the user can install the licensed software into all assets whose responsible person he is and only one license is required. In other words, the user is able to use the same software on multiple assets.
Installed instance	Yes	Yes	A license is needed for each instance of software installation separately. This licensing model is asset specific.
Physical server	-	Yes	In this case, the license permits to use the software on certain server only.
Physical CPU	-	Yes	In this case, the license permits to use the software on certain CPU only.

How to allocate/release licenses manually

Through the license pool items, you can allocate and release software licenses for the selected users or devices in Miradore. If you leave the asset/user undefined, licenses are assigned to users or devices that are not managed with Miradore Management Suite.

Picture: You can manage manual license allocations in the Manual allocations field at the License pool item.

Alternatively, you can do the same thing also the other way around, by opening the User or Asset item for which you want to assign the license, and selecting the desired license pools to the License pools field.

Picture: You can tie user and asset configuration items to license pools.

Automatic allocation

Miradore supports automatic allocation of software licenses on two commonly used licensing models. The automatic allocation of licenses is based on rules defined on each license pool separately. The licenses are also allocated automatically when a software package including managed software that requires a license is distributed to assets. See the Automatic allocation of licenses page for further information.

Restrictions

Restrictions are used to set constraints for the allowed use of the license pool. The use of license pool may be restricted to certain asset group, location, organisation, user, contract, or cost center. In other words, the use of the license pool is restricted to those items that are mentioned on restrictions. By default, no restrictions are set.

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