Summary

In this whitepaper we described various different licensing schemes that you may encounter when procuring the software that you use in your organization and we discussed how these license arrangements relate to the actual installations of those software programs on the machines and network(s) that you manage.

We also discussed how the tools in Enterprise Server can be used to collect information about what products you have installed on your network and to record the licenses that you have for that software, as well as how these licenses relate to the physical installations of the software.

Finally, we discussed how this data can be analyzed using the reports that ship with Enterprise Server to generate accurate reports on the position of your organization with respect to software license compliance, and to help you identify over and under licensed software products in your organization.

Hopefully you now have a better understanding of the tools that are available in Microforge.net Enterprise Server and how you can use these to be able to generate comprehensive and comprehendible reports for management and I.T. that can be used for audits, budgets, negotiation licensing contracts and general planning of the network.