Under-Consumed Licenses

The Under-Consumed Licenses page allow you to identify licenses with spare capacity. For these licenses, your records of purchases (together with any applied product use rights) exceed the consumption identified through the latest inventory collection. The minimum excess is configurable, with the default being to show licenses where at least 5% of your purchases are still not consumed. Change the threshold with the pull-down in the filter area toward the top left of this page.

A license may show as under-consumed for a variety of reasons:

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The simplest reason is that your enterprise simply purchased more entitlements than were required. Perhaps restructuring has meant that some licenses are no longer in use.

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Check that the purchases linked to the license are correct, and that there are no rogue links to purchases that really apply to other licenses.

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Ensure that all areas of your enterprise are included in the software inventory collection. There may be pockets where the software is in use but inventory is not being collected.

Tip:Your access rights may limit your ability to see consumption from some enterprise groups (data scoping); but the comparisons for the license to be included in this list are always unscoped (include counts for the entire enterprise). As a side effect of your access rights, you may appear to have more unused entitlements at your disposal than is really the case. For example, suppose you can see all 100 purchases. Imagine that the software is installed on 90 computers. The 10% under-use means the license is included in this list, and in reality there are 10 unused entitlements available for deployment. However, suppose that your access rights limit you to seeing only 45 of those consumed quantity. To you it appears that you have 55 available entitlements, rather than the 10 in reality. The moral of the story is, if you have limited access rights, always check figures with someone with wider authority.

Properties Displayed on the Under-Consumed Licenses Page

For detailed information on the properties displayed in this list, see Licenses Listings Property Reference.

Note:Most lists in IT Asset Management only show a selection of the properties in the underlying database. Some columns are displayed by default and others can be displayed using the column chooser control, including any custom properties that you have added. For information on using the column chooser, see Managing Columns in a Table.

Note:Any custom properties that you have added for this object are also available through the column chooser. Like other properties, you can also use these properties for filtering and grouping records on this page.