License Manager Overview

To calculate your organization's compliance position, License Manager produces a highly accurate analysis of software usage and applies this to your license entitlement. Users can then create customized views of their data, monitor software usage and generate comprehensive reports.

Key features of License Manager

• Imports license entitlements from multiple sources and validates those entitlements.
• Calculates downgrade and cross-grade rights for efficient application of licenses.
• Imports software audit data from any asset management tool.
• Cleanses this data using sophisticated matching techniques.
• Reconciles your organization's software usage and software entitlement to calculate the most advantageous Effective Licensing Position.
• Provides a number of reports on software installation, licensing position and more.

About the application

License Manager is a Windows application that runs on the .NET framework. It is a client application, and as such, it requires a valid connection to a Microsoft SQL Server database in order to function. The SQL Server software can be installed on the same PC as the License Manager application, or it can be installed on a remote computer. The latter is a more common scenario in larger organizations.

License Manager users are authenticated using database security. Users are given login access to the SQL Server and are granted permission of the LicenseDashboardUser role within the database. System administrators can use Local and Domain security groups to allocate permissions for convenience if required.

If you are preparing to install the software for the first time, please refer to the Installing License Manager information for complete installation instructions.