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14.6.5 Preservation and deletion of license usages
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If a software packet is reinstalled, the call to the opsi-winst function DemandLicenseKey will return the same license
option and license key as had been used before.
In case this is not favoured, the former license option has to be released by calling the opsi-winst command FreeLicense,
or by calling the opsi service call deleteSoftwareLicenseUsage or deleting the license use manually.
So, if not explicitly deleted, the license usages are preserved when reinstalling a client.
For releasing the licenses, they can be deleted from the tab "Licenses usage" or can be deleted by the service call
deleteAllSoftwareLicenseUsages
passing the client host name to delete the license uses from.
14.7 Reconciliation with the software inventory
The tab "Reconciliation" lists for each client and for each license pool whether a use of this license pool is registered
by opsi ("used_by_opsi") and if the software inventory (swaudit) on that client reported a software, that requires a
license option from that pool (Swinventory_used).
To evaluate the results from swaudit, the relevant Software IDs (as found in the client registry) have to be associated
with the appropriate license pool (tab "License pools").
When data matching with the software inventory, the license management counts not more than one license per client
and license pool. So if the license pool office2010 is connected with ten different patterns from software inventory,
indicating that office2010 is installed on this client, this is (regarding the licenses usage count) counted as a single
installation, although all of the detection patterns might to be found on the client.
Figure 65: License management: tab "Reconciliation" (data matching) with the inventory