Handling of Over-Consumption of Specific License Types

IT Asset Management (Cloud)

If the Recommend promoting users to spare superior licenses option is selected for the Handling over-consumption of license types setting on the System Landscape: name page, you can select the Show deficits against this license (license appears at risk) option on the License Type: name page to prevent specific license types from consuming spare superior license types.

If the Show deficits against assigned license (license appears at risk) option on the System Landscape: name page is selected, this overrides the option that is selected for the Handling over-consumption of this license type setting on the License Type: name page. Spare superior licenses will not be used to cover over-utilized licenses on a landscape-wide level.

To specify over-consumption settings for specific license types:

1. Go to the License Types page (Licenses > SAP Optimization > License Types).
2. If you want to switch to a different landscape, click Change Landscape in the top-right corner of the page.
3. On the License Types: system landscape name page, select the license type for which you want set over-consumption options, and click View. Alternatively, double-click the license type.
4. On the License Type: name page, below the Handling over-consumption of this license type option, select one of the following options:
   • Select Recommend promoting users to spare superior licenses if over-consumed licenses should be covered by spare licenses of a superior license type of which the over-consumed license is a sub-type.
   • Select Show deficits against this license (license is at risk) if spare superior licenses should not be used to cover over-utilized licenses.

On the License Types page, the Over-Consumption column in the License Types grid indicates whether a spare superior license type can be consumed by a lower-priority license type.

For more information on license types in the hierarchy, see License-Type Hierarchy.