Practical Management Flashcards
T | F: The primary objective of Software License Management (SLM) is to track, control, and reduce software costs, including costs associated with non-compliance findings during a software audit.
True
Used in combination with the publisher during discovery model normalization. You can add a custom product if a software product does not exist in the Software library.
Software Product
Used to organize software licenses in meaningful ways. They are associated to a defined product and the software model category.
Software Model
Associates CI classes with asset classes. This assignment is automatic and read-only for SAM. Additional model categories should NOT be created for SAM as this will impact how SAM operates.
Model Category
A group of related software products offered as one unit. The parent is the master model that represents the suite of software. It has one or more suite children.
Software Suite
Provides publisher specific licensing metrics for reconciliation and optimization to determine license compliance. When activated, results are displayed in a software publisher compliance dashboard.
Publisher Pack
Set in software entitlements and used for software license reconciliation (e.g. reconcile based on users vs devices).
Software License Metric
A software license measured by the number of users or devices that can access a product.
Common Access License (CAL)
A pattern of numbers and/or letters assigned to users of a software license.
Software License Key
Shows software compliance details for each software model in a single list.
License Position Report
Where are pay-for-license software products stored?
Software Product table [samp_sw_product]
Where are custom software products stored?
Custom Software Product table [samp_custom_sw_product]
What is an inference percent?
Defines what percent of the suite must be installed to be identified as a suite. This is only used if the suite parent does not exist on the device.
T | F: Software license metrics are used for reconciliation to determine your compliance position.
True
What can license metrics can be defined for?
Users, devices, processors, and cores.
What are the six common license metrics that come with Software Asset Management Professional?
Per Core, Per Device, Per Named Device, Per Named User, Per Processor (CPU count), Per User
What table are software entitlements stored on?
[alm_license]
What is Software reconciliation?
An automated process which calculates compliance based on how many rights are in use compared to the number of active rights that have been purchased. It keeps license positions accurate and up to date without manual calculations.
What are Discovery maps?
Predefined set of conditions that determine which software discovery models get mapped to which software models.
T | F: Purchased rights are NOT applied to software discovery models that meet the conditions defined in the discovery map.
False
Purchased rights are ONLY applied to software discovery models that meet the conditions defined in the discovery map.
How is software reconciliation run?
Software reconciliation is run as a scheduled job (typically weekly) but can also be run on-demand for one or all software publishers.
What SAM role can run on-demand software reconciliation?
sam_admin
What are the four tiers of software reconciliation results?
- Software Publisher
- Software Product
- Software Model
- License Metric
T | F: A software product result for a licensable product is generated after reconciliation even if there are no software models defined for the product.
True
