Create a software model to add product details that are used to connect software rights you purchased with software installations discovered on your system.

1. Navigate to Software Asset > Licensing > Software Models.
2. Click New.
3. On the Software Model form, fill in the details about the software publisher.
4. Right-click the form header and select Save.
5. Specify whether your software publisher is part of a suite.
   • To designate your software model as a suite parent, click the Suite Parents related list and add all software included with the suite.
   • To designate your software model as a suite component, click the Suite Components related list and add the parent suite.
   Note: If you've add a discovery map to your product details, predefined suites are used and suite components are created automatically for known suite parent.
6. To include your software model in the centralized repository of model information, click the Publish to Software Catalog related link and add the publisher information.
7. To see discovery maps that have the match the software publisher and product fields of the software model, click the Show Matching Discovery Models related link.
8. To specify lifecycle information for your software model, click the Software Model Lifecycle related list and add the lifecycle information.
9. To set the attribute value, click the Metric Attributes related list and complete the form.
   When you add an attribute value, entitlements with this publisher information associated with them automatically have the Metric Group field populated. Based on the metric group, only license metrics related to the publisher are available.
10. To associate your software model with a vendor, click the Vendor Catalog Item related list and complete the form.
11. To specify the number of devices or users that are accessing the software, click the Client Access related list and complete the form.
12. To create a new record for the software downgrade rights, click the Downgrade Rights related list and complete the form.
    Note: If your software model has a discovery map associated with it and the discovery map has downgrade rights, the downgrade rights are populated automatically. Downgraded versions of the software appear in a hierarchical list. For more information, see Downgrade Rights.
13. Click Update.

Example: Record product details

Create a software model to add publisher details for Microsoft Office 365 so that you can begin tracking your software rights and user allocations.

To begin recording the product information, add the following information to the Software Model form.

Field	Description
Publisher	Microsoft
Product	Office 365
Discovery map	DMAP0006292

The Product classification and Product type fields are generated automatically after you enter the publisher and product details.

Discovery maps are a predefined set of conditions that are related to a particular type of software. For example, a discovery map could include both a version and edition for the software you are defining publisher details for.

The Edition field is automatically populated with Enterprise E1.

Click Save.

Because Microsoft Office 365 is a suite of products, you can track the individual software included with the software suite.

Add Microsoft Excel.

Click Save.

To keep you software current and up-to-date, click the Software Model Lifecycle related list and add the lifecycle information.

Click Submit.

To track the vendor for your product, click theVendor Catalog Items related list and complete the form.

Next, click the Client Access related list and complete the form to add the number of users that have access to Microsoft Office 365.

The discovery map that is associated with the software model doesn't have downgrade rights. To add downgrade rights, click the Downgrade Rights related list and complete the form.

Click Submit.

On the Software Model form, click Update to update the record with your changes.