License Distributions

You can add a license distribution for a product license, which enables you to capture the number of product licenses that are allocated to your enterprise’s various organizational units. For example, if you have a total of 100 licenses for a product, you may want to allocate 30 of them to the Memory Products division and 70 to the Communications division.

License distributions are used primarily for reporting, chargeback, and inventory control purposes; there is no way to restrict product usage.

You can distribute product licenses automatically or manually. Automatic distribution is based on each organizational unit’s percentage usage of the product. Using the previous example, if the Communications division is using the product three times as much as the Memory Products division, they would receive 75 product licenses and Memory Products would receive 25 product licenses.

You can use manual distribution if you know the quantities used by your organizational units—if the quantities are known or fixed and not based on relative usage.