The Software Asset Management application supplements the capabilities of the Software Asset Management (SAM) Professional plugin.
This application enables the following features when installed with:
SAM Foundations:
- Enables use of the common license metrics: Per User, Per Device, Per Core, Per Processor
SAM Professional:
- Includes features available with SAM Foundations.
- Enables license compliance for the following publishers: Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, VMware, and Citrix
- Improved experience with detailed explanations of licensing calculations for the above publishers.
- Cost-based licensing optimization for Microsoft clusters to maximize cost savings for on-premise cluster deployments. This licensing optimization is supported for the following Microsoft license metrics:
- Per core licenses for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server
- Per core (with CAL) licenses for Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Core Infrastructure Server, and Microsoft System Center
- Enables use of the lifecycle report and lifecycle dashboard analytics by providing the scheduled job SAM - Generate Data For Software Lifecycle Report. This job collects data for life cycles for products whose lifecycle dates are available and published by the Content Service.
This application enables the following features when installed with:
Software Asset Management Foundations:
- None
Software Asset Management Professional:
- Apply preferred licensing assignment to Microsoft software products that are deployed on clusters: Define and apply preferred cluster licensing assignments to the Microsoft software products that are deployed on your hypervisor clusters. By using a preferred cluster licensing assignment, you can choose whether you want to license these software products at either the physical host layer or the virtual layer, helping you better align with your organization’s predetermined licensing strategy. Built-in validations help verify that your licensing strategy setup complies with the relevant Microsoft licensing requirements.
- Manage licensing for Microsoft server products on Microsoft hyper-v virtualization technology: Use the Software Asset Management publisher pack for Microsoft to track and manage licensing for Microsoft Server products, such as Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server, on Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology. Track license usage and determine your license compliance position so that you can better optimize your licensing costs.
- Automatically identify and license MS SQL Server high availability configurations: Use the Software Asset Management publisher pack for Microsoft to automatically identify and license Microsoft SQL Server deployments in high availability configurations, such as Always On availability groups. This capability enables the Software Asset Management application to automatically classify each replica within a configuration as either active or passive, resulting in more accurate license compliance for Microsoft SQL Server.
- Efficiently manage user allocations in bulk using group allocations: Allocate licenses to user groups instead of individual users for a software entitlement using the group allocation feature for the user-based licensing metric software. Group allocation feature enables Software Asset Management managers to streamline and manage the license allocation process efficiently. User allocation is created for the group members based on the availability of unallocated licenses. Any changes made to the composition of the user group automatically updates the license allocation.
- Manage licensing for VMware vSphere Standard (VVS) and VMware vSphere Essentials Plus (VVEP): Following the updates to VMware's licensing policy, use the Software Asset Management publisher pack for VMware to track and manage licensing for VMware vSphere Standard (VVS) and VMware vSphere Essentials Plus (VVEP), which are updated suite-based product offerings for VMware vSphere. With these updated product offerings, you can measure compliance and optimize licensing for multiple VMware vSphere products under a single subscription.In addition, the publisher pack can account for the number of cores and the licensing minimums when calculating licensing requirements for VVS and VVEP.
- Use flexible reporting capabilities to gain deeper insights into your Effective License Position (ELP): Improve analysis of your ELP with flexible reporting on reconciliation results. Reports can be run on existing reconciliation groups or customer-defined groups, and the report data can be organized by unique combinations of group, subgroup, publisher, product, version, and edition. For each combination, the average cost is calculated and provides the total number of required licenses. The results are presented in a structured format for easy analysis and reporting.
Required plugins and products:
- Software Asset Management Professional (com.snc.samp) plugin
- ITOM Discovery