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When inserting a new line into the table, a (unique) licensePoolId must be entered, e.g. softprod_pool. Please do not
use special characters. When saving the new entry, any capitals will be converted to lower case.
The new licensePoolId cannot be changed after it is saved, because it is used as the master key.
The table at the top of the window contains the available license pools. The context menu provides several functions
for managing license pools, especially to insert a {New license-pool}. After any changes to the data in the window, the
green check checkmark changes to red and the cancel option is enabled. The changes can be saved by clicking the red
checkmark, or changes can be cancelled by clicking the cancel option (also available from the context menu).
14.3.3 license pools and opsi-products
The standard method to manage licenses is to include the license, from a single license pool, when installing the
software (i.e. using the opsi-product installation software to install Acrobat Writer).
A more complicated situation might occur while installing software that requires licenses from several license pools
(i.e. "Designer tools" which installs Adobe Photoshop as well as Acrobat Writer).
In this case, the opsi-product requests licenses from several license pools. At the same time, there might be other
opsi-products requesting licenses from the same license pools (e.g. the Acrobat Writer license pool). So the relation
between opsi-products and license pools can be ambiguous. This can be avoided by using unambiguous policies when
building opsi-products.
The second part of the license pool tab manages the relationship between license pools and productIds (from opsiproducts).
All tables in the license management module can have their columns sorted by clicking on the column header. Clicking
again inverts the order (ascending or descending).
Sorting can be used to display the connections between opsi-products and license pools. Sorting by opsi-product displays
all license pools connected to a certain opsi-product, whereas sorting by license pool shows which opsi-products are
connected to a license pool.
The context menu provides an option for inserting a new relationship between opsi-product and license pool. An empty
row is inserted on top of the table. Clicking into the field licensePoolId or productId displays a dropdown with the
available options.
14.3.4 license pools and Windows software IDs
The third section of the license pools tab displays the Windows software IDs connected to the currently selected license
pool (in the first section of the tab).
A Windows software ID is an unique key identifying a software packet as detected by opsi software audit. These
software IDs are also used by the opsi software inventory module to identify which software is actually installed on
the client.
The assignment of software IDs to the current license pool can be changed by setting or removing the selection (ctrlclick
or shift-click). From the context menu the display can be toggled between showing all available software IDs
detected by the software audit or just showing the software IDs connected to the current license pool.
Displaying the relationship between Software IDs and license pools is useful for comparing the number of actual
software installations (detected by the software audit) with the number of legal installations available from the license
pool (tab "Statistics", see below).
14.4 Setting up licenses
Setting up a license for being provided by a license pool requires several steps. The second tab New license is for
setting up and editing licenses.
On top is the table of available license pools to select the license pool the new license is to be assigned to. So the first
step is to select the license pool for the new license.