Create entitlements in the Software Asset Workspace to enter your license details and allocate purchased software rights to users or devices.

Before you begin

These instructions are for using the standard form for creating software entitlements one at a time. You can also use the step by step approach of a guided walk-through for creating entitlements. If you already have software entitlement details entered in a spreadsheet, you can also import them using the bulk import functionality.

When you start creating the entitlement it is in the build status. Once you publish the entitlement, the status changes to in use and makes the entitlement eligible to be included in the reconciliation process.

If you installed SaaS License Management, a software model is generated automatically after you create an integration profile. Create an entitlement for the software model to track software used against software owned.

if you installed the SAP publisher pack, see Create entitlements for SAP.

You can also create entitlements for RHEL and Citrix publisher packs. For details on the entitlement form fields for RHEL, see Table 1.

Role required: sam_admin or sam_user

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Software asset > Software Asset Workspace.
  2. Select Create entitlement to open the Create new entitlement dialog box.
    You can also navigate to the Create new entitlement dialog box from Software asset > Software Asset Workspace > License operations
    create entitlement using the standard form
  3. Select Fill out the details in a standard form and then select Next.
  4. In the Create New Software Entitlement page, fill in the fields.
    For a detailed description of the fields, see Software entitlement fields.
  5. Select Save.
    After you save the entitlement, the Allocations, General, Financial, and Contracts tabs appear on the page. You can now add details in these related tabs.
  6. Once you have entered the required details, select Publish.

    The entitlement is created and state of the entitlement is changed to in use from build. The entitlement is ready to be picked up for the reconciliation process.

    You can perform additional configuration on the new entitlement by entering details in the other tabs such as Contracts, Downgrade Rights, Expense Lines, Entitlement History. For a detailed description of the fields in these tabs, see Software entitlement fields.