Processor Limits

Use this section to control consumption of license entitlements based on the number of processors for the inventory device that are reported in hardware inventory.

Tip:If your inventory source does not return the number of processors for an inventory device, navigate to the inventory device properties, select the Hardware tab, and against the Processors value, click the Override control and enter your new value.

Restrictions

This section is available only for the Microsoft Server Processor license type (for more details, see Microsoft Server Processor (license type)).

Controls

The following table lists processor limits controls.

Processor Limits Controls

Control

Details

This license does not have contracts with applicable processor limits

This label indicates that this license has no linked contract attached to it that has applicable processor limits. Processor limits can be inherited from a contract, or specified in this section. This label appears when the contract attached to this license has no processor limits. See License Properties / Contracts Tab.

Inherit processor limits from contract

Indicates the name of the linked contract from which this license can inherit license consumption rules and rights. When you select this check box, you instruct IT Asset Management to dynamically inherit license use rights and rules from an automatically-selected linked contract. If a license is linked to multiple contracts, the license inherits use rights and rules from one of the linked contracts based on the following conditions:

• If one of the linked contracts has a value Yes for the Evergreen field, its use rights and rules are inherited by the license.
• If none of the linked contracts has a value Yes for the Evergreen field, the license inherits use rights and rules from the contract that has a greater value for the Expiry date field.
• If none of the linked contracts has a value Yes for the Evergreen field, and all of the linked contracts have same value for the Expiry date field, the license inherits use rights and rules from the contract that appears first in database order (normally the contract record that was created first).
• If all of the linked contracts have a value Yes for the Evergreen field, or all of the linked contracts have same expiry date, the license inherits use rights and rules from the contract that appears first in database order.

Note:You cannot use other rights options when you select this check box.

Consume one entitlement for every n processors

Sets the basic ratio of processors to consume a single license entitlement. For example, if you set this value to 2, you need to buy a license (entitlement) for every two processors; and a 4-processor server requires two license entitlements.

Minimum processors

Some licenses set a base level of server for which the application can be licensed, defined by the minimum number of processors expected in such a device. When this value is larger than one, it may cause the license consumption to be higher than calculated directly from inventory. For example, suppose inventory returned a device with two processors, but Minimum processors is set to 4. This means that consumption for the inventory device must be calculated as if it had four processors; and if the license requires one license entitlement for every two processors, the device consumes two license entitlements (rather than the one that might be expected from inventory alone).