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

Before you begin

Role required: sam_user, sam_admin, or model_manager

About this task

You can manually create a software model. However, you can leverage the Software Asset Management Content Service Library to automate the creation of software models through their relationship to software entitlements. While creating or importing a software entitlement, specifying a publisher part number automatically creates a software model (if needed) or links to an existing software model. You need to manually create a software model if a publisher part number is not available, a publisher part number does not exist in the Content Service Library, or if you are creating a software model for a custom product.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Software asset > Software Asset Workspace.
  2. Select License operations view on the left hand bar.
  3. Under Licensing, select software models.
  4. Select New.
    Create a software model in workspace
  5. On the Create New Software Model page, fill in the details in the fields.
    See Software model fields.
  6. Select Save.
    After you save the software model, the General, Suite Components, Suite Parents, and the Product Catalog tabs appear on the page. You can now add details in these related tabs.
  7. Specify whether your software publisher is part of a suite.
    • To designate your software model as a suite parent, click Suite Parents and add all software included with the suite.
    • To designate your software model as a suite component, click Suite Components and add the parent suite.
    Note: If you've added a discovery map to your product details, predefined suites are used and suite components are created automatically for known suite parent.
  8. To view all the product lifecycles associated with your software model, select Software Product Lifecycle.
    Select New to create a custom product life-cycle.
  9. To view the override license cost for your entitlements, select Override License Cost.
  10. To set the attribute value, select the Metric Attributes 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.
  11. To associate your software model with a vendor, select Vendor Catalog Items and complete the form.
  12. To specify the number of devices or users that are accessing the software, select Client Access and complete the form.
  13. To create a new record for the software downgrade rights, click Downgrade Rights 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.
  14. To enable self-service capabilities for the software that is associated with your software model, publish the software model to your service catalog.
    1. Select Publish to Software Catalog.
      The Publish <software-model> to Software Catalog dialog box opens.
    2. On the dialog box, set the Category field to Software.
    3. Select OK.