6.5 Creating a Licensed Product

There are three methods you can use to create a licensed product:

You can manually create a licensed product. You then need to create the licensed product’s entitlements and add catalog products and discovered products.
You can use the Auto-Reconcile Wizard to create a licensed product from a discovered product. During the process, you create an entitlement and reconcile any catalog products (identified by the wizard as possible matches for the licensed product) to the licensed product. The wizard can create multiple licensed products at one time.
You can use the Asset Management Dashboard to create a license product from a discovered product.

Refer to the following sections for instructions:

6.5.1 Manually Creating a Licensed Product

In ZENworks Control Center, click the Asset Management tab.
In the License Management page, click Licensed Products.
Click New > Licensed Product to launch the Create New Licensed Product Wizard.
On the General Information page, fill in the following fields:

Manufacturer (Optional): The manufacturer of the product.

Licensed Product (Required): The name of the product.

Version (Optional): The product version.

License information source configured: Select this option if you have configured a license information source for the licensed product. Selecting this check box enables you to select a licensed information source.

License information source: Specify or select a licensed information source for the licensed product. This option is enabled only when the License Information Source Configured check box is selected.

Notes (Optional): Specify any notes.
Click Next, review the information on the New Licensed Product Summary page, then click Finish to add the product to the Licensed Products list.
Configure the licensed product by completing these additional tasks:
- Create one or more entitlements. See Creating an Entitlement.
- Add catalog products to the entitlements. See Adding Catalog Products.
- Add discovered products to the entitlements. See Adding Discovered Products.
- Specify the users or devices covered by the entitlements. See Specifying User and Device Coverage.

6.5.2 Creating a Licensed Product from a Discovered Product

The Auto-Reconcile Wizard creates licensed products from discovered products. The wizard does the following:

Lets you select the discovered product from which you want to create a licensed product. You can select multiple discovered products at one time to create multiple licensed products.
Creates a licensed product with the same name as the discovered product.
Creates an entitlement for the licensed product. You specify the entitlement’s description and license model. If you are creating multiple licensed products, the same entitlement (description and license model) is created for each product.
Adds the discovered product to the entitlement.
Identifies any catalog products that might match the licensed product. Lets you choose whether or not to add the catalog products to the licensed product’s entitlement.

When you run the Auto-Reconcile Wizard, you should select discovered products that require the same entitlement license model. As mentioned above, the wizard applies the same entitlement to all licensed products created during the process. If you create a licensed product from a discovered product that does not fit the entitlement license model, you need to manually edit the licensed product’s entitlement and change its license model.

To create licensed products from discovered products:

In ZENworks Control Center, click the Asset Management tab.
In the License Management page, click Licensed Products.

In the Licensed Products panel, click Action > Auto-Reconcile: Create Licensed Products to launch the Auto-Reconcile Wizard. Complete the wizard by using information from the following table to fill in the fields:

Wizard Page	Details
Discovered Product Filter	You can filter the list of discovered products so that you have a smaller list of products from which to select. Any: Select this option to ignore the filter; all discovered products are displayed. Products Specified Below: Select this option to filter the discovered products list. Fill in the following fields: Manufacturer: Click Select, then select one of the listed manufacturers. Or, click Search and specify the text string that will display the manufacturers. Product: Specify a text string that will display the products you want. You can use an asterisk () as a wildcard. For example, if you want to display all discovered products from manufacturers that start with M, enter M in the Manufacturer field and * in the Product field.
Select Licensed Products to Create	This page lists all the discovered products that meet the filter criteria defined on the previous page. The first column displays the name of the licensed product that will be created. The second column displays the discovered product that will be associated with the licensed product. The third column displays any catalog products that the wizard thinks are candidates for association with the licensed product. By default, all licensed products are selected and will be created. You can deselect any licensed products you don’t want created. You can also deselect any catalog products that you don’t want associated with a licensed product.
Destination Folder	Lets you specify where in the Licensed Products folder hierarchy you want to place the new licensed products. The field defaults to the current folder (the folder from which you launched the Auto-Reconcile Wizard). To specify another folder, click to browse for and select the folder. The folder must already exist; you cannot use the selection dialog box to create a new folder.
License Entitlements	Every licensed product must have at least one entitlement. This page lets you specify a description and license model for the entitlement that will be added to the licensed products you are creating. Description: Add a description for the license entitlement. The entitlement description serves as a name for the entitlement and identifies it in the licensed product’s entitlement list. The description can reflect the product name and version, the license model, the license type, or any other information that makes sense to you. License Model: Select one of the following license models: Per-Installation: Each installation of the entitlement’s discovered products consumes a license. OEM: For each covered device, a license is consumed whether or not any of the entitlement’s discovered products are installed on the device. You specify the devices covered by the entitlement. Machine: For each covered device, a license is consumed only if one of the entitlement’s discovered products is installed on the device. You specify the devices covered by the entitlement. Per-Machine - Multi-Version This license model consumes only one license if you have installed different versions of the same software on the same machine. Per-User: Each user consumes a single license for any installations of the entitlement’s discovered products, regardless of the number of installations. Per-Named User: Identical to the Per-User model, but you specify the users covered by the entitlement.
Auto-reconcile Create Summary	Review your data.

If you have not already done so, click Finish to create the licensed products and add them to the Licensed Products panel.
If necessary, configure the licensed product by completing these additional tasks:
- Specify the users or devices covered by the entitlement. See Specifying User and Device Coverage.
- Add additional catalog products. See Adding Catalog Products.
- Add additional discovered products. See Adding Discovered Products.
- Create additional entitlements. See Creating an Entitlement.

6.5.3 Creating Licensed Product from the Dashboard

To create a licensed product from the dashboard, see Creating a Licensed Product from the Dashboard.