7.12 License Management Rights

The License Management Rights dialog box lets you control the operations that the selected administrator can perform to manage licenses.

7.12.1 Contexts

Specify the License Management folders (contexts) that you want the administrator’s License Management rights to apply to. To select a folder, click Add to display the Contexts dialog box, browse for and select the folder (or multiple folders), then click OK. The rights also apply to the folder’s subfolders.

7.12.2 Privileges

The Privileges section lets you grant the administrator rights to work with the software license components associated with the contexts (folders) you selected in the Contexts section.

The following rights are available:

RIGHT

OPERATIONS CONTROLLED BY THE RIGHT

NOTES

View Leaf

  • View the contents in the specified context (folder and subfolders)

Setting the View Leaf right to Deny forces all other License Management rights to Deny. The View Leaf right must be set to Allow to perform any other license management operations.

Modify

  • For purchase records:

    • Change purchase record details

    • Create, edit, and delete purchase details for existing purchase records

  • For catalog products:

    • Change catalog product details

    • Add a catalog product to a licensed product

    • Include or exclude a catalog product from being able to be added to a licensed product

  • For licensed products:

    • Change licensed product details

    • Allocate licensed products to devices

    • Remove licensed product allocations from devices

    • Refresh compliance status

    • Use auto-reconcile to add discovered products and catalog products to existing licensed products

  • For discovered products:

    • Include or exclude a discovered product from being able to be added to a licensed product

    • Add a discovered product to a licensed product or to a software collection

    • Assign a Standards category to a discovered product

    • Refresh compliance status

    • Change the usage period

  • For software collections:

    • Change a software collection’s details

    • Add discovered products to a software collection

    • Remove discovered products from a software collection

 

Create/Delete

  • For purchase records:

    • Create a new purchase record

    • Import purchase records from a file

    • Move a purchase record from one folder to another

    • Move a purchase record from one folder to another

  • For catalog products:

    • Create a new catalog product

    • Move a catalog product from one folder to another

    • Delete a catalog product

  • For licensed products:

    • Create a new licensed product

    • Auto-reconcile to create new licensed products from discovered products

    • Merge two or more licensed products into one

    • Move a licensed product from one folder to another

    • Delete a licensed product

  • For software collections:

    • Create a new software collection

    • Move a software collection from one folder to another

    • Delete a software collection

 

Modify Folders

  • Change a folder’s description

 

Create/Delete Folders

  • Create a folder

  • Delete a folder

  • Move a folder to another folder

To move a folder, an adminstrator must have this right and the Create/Delete right.

Access to License Management reports is controlled through Asset Management Report Rights. For details, see Section 7.27, Asset Management Report Rights.