Ownership Tab

FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R2 (On-Premises)
  • For the Ownership tab under Remote Device Properties, see Ownership Tab.
  • For the Ownership tab under Virtual Desktop Template Properties, see Ownership Tab.

The Ownership tab displays the details about the ownership of this inventory device by enterprise groups, including up to one each from location, corporate unit, and cost center. This tab also displays the last logged on user, the assigned user, and the calculated user for the inventory device.

These settings are mainly useful for record keeping. These settings:

  • Have no impact on compliance calculations (except in the special case of IBM PVU licenses, where the Location setting may determine which of three mandatory IBM regions worldwide records consumption for this device)
  • Do not limit how the inventory device can be allocated to individual users
  • Do not limit how the inventory device can be assigned to other enterprise groups.
    Note: If:
    • Operators have restricted data access rights, so that they can see data only from specified enterprise groups, and
    • This inventory device is owned by a different enterprise group for which the operators do not have permission
    then the inventory device is completely invisible to those operators, and so is any consumption by this device from any license. Another operator who has no such access rights restrictions can still see the device, and its related consumption. However, these limitations on visibility have no effect on actual license consumption, only on how much of the consumption an operator can see. If, instead, you want to restrict this device to consuming from particular licenses, you can specify the enterprise groups of interest in the Restrictions tab of the license properties. If a license is restricted in this way, then only devices with matching enterprise groups can consume from the license. For more information about license restrictions, see Restrictions Tab. Another way to control linking of inventory devices to licenses without using enterprise groups is by using allocations, on the Consumption tab of the license properties.

The following inventory device properties (listed alphabetically) are available on this tab.

Table 1. Ownership tab details
Field Description
Assigned
The user assigned to this device. This assignment overrides the Calculated user.
Tip: Other than for exceptional reasons, it is best practice to leave this value blank, so that the Calculated user (derived from inventory collections) can drive compliance calculations as intended. If your purpose is to set ownership for the hardware, consider setting the Assigned user on the asset record (which does not affect compliance calculations), and ensuring that these two values for asset and inventory device are not synchronized (navigate to the system menu ( in the top right corner) > System Settings, and on the Assets tab, ensure that the check box Synchronize assigned user in device and asset properties is cleared). However, you might need to use this setting on the inventory device for special reasons, such as resolving users who have multiple login accounts.

Search and select the user for the inventory device. For details about using the search control, see To Use a Fly-Down.
Calculated user

The name of the user that was the most frequent user of this device, over the previous 10 inventory collections. Click to open the General tab of the user properties pages, and for details see General Tab.

The value of this field is automatically generated by FlexNet Manager Suite.

Not available when any of the following is true:
  • You are manually creating a new record for an inventory device
  • The inventory device is a VDI template
  • There is no inventory source (or the inventory source is Manual) reporting this inventory device.
Corporate unit
The corporate unit responsible for the device.
Tip: For virtual machines, edits to this value are rejected (and the previous value restored) when it is inherited from the host on which this VM is a guest. Inheritance is controlled by the system setting for inventory called Update virtual machine cost center and corporate unit to match host properties. (For remote devices, all properties are always read-only.)
FlexNet Manager Suite enables you to create a hierarchy of corporate units based on the structure of your enterprise. For example, you can have Example Enterprises at the top level, dividing into business groups at the next level, and then divisions such as Marketing and Engineering within those.
Search for and select the corporate unit for an inventory device. For details about using the search control, see To Use a Fly-Down.
Tip: If you make a change, but the old value 'pops back in', it is likely inherited from the host of this virtual machine.
Cost center
The cost center responsible for all costs incurred for this device.
Tip: For virtual machines, edits to this value are rejected (and the previous value restored) when it is inherited from the host on which this VM is a guest. Inheritance is controlled by the system setting for inventory called Update virtual machine cost center and corporate unit to match host properties. (For remote devices, all properties are always read-only.)
FlexNet Manager Suite enables you to create a hierarchy of cost centers units based on the structure of your enterprise. For example, you might have a parent group of Service cost centers that includes the Personnel department, which may be subdivided to include Employee and Labor Relations, along with other HR functions.
Search for and select the cost center responsible for all costs incurred for this inventory device. For details about using the search control, see To Use a Fly-Down.
Tip: If you make a change, but the old value 'pops back in', it is likely inherited from the host of this virtual machine.
Last logged on

The full name of the user, if any, that was discovered to be the last logged on user on this device. Click to open the General tab of the user properties pages, and for details see General Tab.

Not available when any of the following is true:
  • You are manually creating a new record for an inventory device
  • The inventory device is a VDI template
  • The inventory device is a UNIX-like device other than one running macOS
  • The inventory device is a Windows device that is not a member of an Active Directory domain, or cannot access the domain controller
  • The Windows device is an old version, earlier than Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008
  • There is no inventory source (or the inventory source is Manual) reporting this inventory device.
Location
Specifies the location within your enterprise that is responsible for the device.
Tip: For virtual machines, this value is read-only when it is inherited from the host on which this VM is a guest. Inheritance is controlled by the system setting for inventory called Update virtual machine location to match host location. (For remote devices, all properties are always read-only.)
FlexNet Manager Suite enables you to create a hierarchy of locations based on the geographical hierarchy of your enterprise. For example, you can have a location Seattle under Washington, which is under USA.
Important: For IBM PVU licenses only, and only when FlexNet Manager Suite is in 'PVU mode' (responsible for sub-capacity calculations of PVU points), your choice of location may affect the assignment of this inventory device to one of the three mandatory IBM regions for which peak PVU consumption must be calculated. This is because individual locations may be mapped to an IBM region, and 'ownership' of the inventory device by a location ties it to the matching IBM region. Therefore any change of location that causes this inventory device to switch to a different IBM region (for example, because the new location is mapped to a different IBM region) may affect the calculations of the peak consumption values (and their timings) across the regions. Such a change of location is considered a correction for sub-capacity calculations, and takes effect retroactively throughout the entire reporting period (peak values are recalculated each time a full compliance calculation is run, typically nightly).

Search for and select the location of an inventory device. For details about using the search control, see To Use a Fly-Down.
For more information about assigning a location, corporate unit, cost center, and user to an inventory device, see Adding a Location, Corporate Unit, Cost Center, or User to an Inventory Device.

FlexNet Manager Suite (On-Premises)

2022 R2