Oracle reconciliation keeps your Oracle license positions accurate and up-to-date without requiring manual calculations. Reconciliation runs weekly or on-demand.

When you run an Oracle reconciliation, Software Asset Management determines the Rights Used By and Rights Needed By allocations for the named users, physical devices, and physical hosts that are accessing or running an Oracle product. You can use this information to keep your Oracle products in compliance.

Note: Starting with the Paris release, any allocations that you make on a physical host are considered valid. Software Asset Management marks these allocations as Allocated in use in the license workbench. Any allocations that you make on a virtual host, such as a virtual machine (VM), are considered invalid. Software Asset Management marks these allocations as Allocated not in use.

For Oracle database and WebLogic server licensing on VMware virtualization technology, you can select the level of aggregation for your reconciliation calculation using the Select the level of aggregation for reconciling licenses for Oracle databases and WebLogic servers on VMware property. You can also enable Software Asset Management to account for VM-Host affinity rules during Oracle reconciliation using the Use host affinity for reconciling licenses for Oracle databases and WebLogic servers on VMware at the vCenter(s) aggregation level property. See Software Asset Management properties for information on these properties.