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davea

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Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 5

Licensing and inventory reconciliation feature request

Thanks much for a great product. We are testing both GLPI and OCSNG and are very satisfied.

We need the following feature that I will explain.

Here is our current situation:
We currently use a spreadsheet (argh!!) for listing of our licenses, both keys and quantities. We currently DO NOT have an inventory solution like OCSNG. So really we have no way of verifying that the number of licenses that we bought are equal to the number of licenses.

So we see that OCSNG and GLPI can solve this problem.
Here is how:
We start with a clean database in both software applications.
We install the OCSNG agent on all machines and gather inventory.
We enable the OCSNG integration with GLPI with the *software* set to *unit importation* and software dictionaries =NO.
We import new inventory into GLPI.

Now the tricky part: we need to select which licenses we HAVE to the MACHINE that it is installed on.

At this point, we look at the software inventory for all machines and we have one entry under a specific software title. For example, it may show 100 installs of MS OFFICE.

Now we have *licenses* with certain license codes that we purchased. We enter those licenses into GLPI for THAT application and show them as BOUGHT.

So if we have a license for 100 units and we imported 100 units, GPLI now shows us with 200 units- 100 global and 100 from the license entry we made.

We can *unglobalize* the imported 100 units and the MOVE them to the LICENSE. However, the number of LICENSES still remains the same: 200.

How can we make GLPI decrease the number of a license that we entered by hand?

Thanks,
Dave

MoYo

GLPI - Lead

From: Poitiers

Registered: 2004-09-13

Posts: 14,513

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Re: Licensing and inventory reconciliation feature request

100+100=200. I do not understand the problem.

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davea

Member

Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 5

Re: Licensing and inventory reconciliation feature request

The problem is that I don't have 200 licenses- OCS tells me I have 100 installations and my paperwork tells me I have 100 licenses. I am referring to using OCS and GLPI as a way of reconciling my *purchased* licenses with my *installed* licenses.

Thanks,
Dave