Archived License Recommendation Sets

FlexNet Manager Suite 2019 R2 (On-Premises Edition)

The details that are displayed on the Recommendations: recommendation set name page (accessible by double-clicking a recommendation set on the History page) are the same for all recommendations sets, regardless of its status.

The Recommendations: recommendation set name page is structured in a similar way to the License Position page.

Details – General

The Details – General section on the Recommendations: recommendation set name page shows general information for the archived recommendation set.

Property Notes
Name The name of the recommendation set.
License position calculated at The date and time when the license position was calculated.
System landscape The name of the system landscape for which the license position was calculated.
Status The status of the recommendation set. Possible values are:
  • Released — The recommendation set was released and accepted.
  • Rejected — The recommendation set was released and rejected.
  • Archived — The recommendation set was archived.

Details – User Compliance

The Details – User Compliance section shows a summary of the archived license position for all license types:

Property Notes
Purchased Total number of user licenses that your organization had purchased at the time.
Purchase value Monetary value of the licenses that your organization had purchased at the time.
Consumed (Current) Total number of consolidated user licenses that were assigned to the users at the time.
Consumed value (Current) Monetary value of all user licenses that were assigned to the users at the time.
Used (Optimal)

The total number of user licenses that would have been consumed if you had accepted all recommendations by FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications. This amount is based on all active license rules, Duplicate User rules, and user consolidation.

This value shows the best possible scenario. However, it does not take into account any contractual obligations that your organization might need to consider with regard to its SAP licenses.

Used value (Optimal) The monetary value of all user licenses that would have been consumed if you had accepted all recommendations by FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications. This amount is based on all active license rules, Duplicate User rules, user consolidation, and unit price per license.
Used (Contractual) The number of licenses that would have been consumed if you had accepted all recommendations by FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications. In addition, this value takes specific SAP license contract obligations into account (if these have been specified in FlexNet Manager Suite):
  • Spare licenses: This value includes existing spare licenses of a higher license type that could cover licenses of a lower license type. As a prerequisite, you must have defined the sub-licenses that are covered by a higher license type in the license-type hierarchy, and the Recommend promoting users to spare superior licenses option (on the License Type:name page) must be selected for these licenses. For more information, see License-Type Hierarchy.
  • License ratio: If a license ratio had been defined and activated, the license position would have been calculated accordingly.
Used value (Contractual) The monetary value of all consumed user licenses that would have been consumed if you had accepted all recommendations by FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications (based on the unit price that was entered on the License Type:name page). In addition, this value includes spare licenses and a license ratio, if these had been specified (see previous item in this list).
Retired (Optimal) The number of licenses that would have been retired (changing the user's Valid To date so that the user is no longer valid) if you had accepted all recommendations by FlexNet Manager Suite.

Details – Package Compliance

The Details – Package Compliance section on the License Position page shows information for the package licenses:

Property Notes
Number of packages The number of SAP packages that your organization was using at the time.
Purchase value The monetary value of all package licenses that your organization had purchased at the time.
Consumed value The monetary value of the package licenses that your organization had consumed at the time.

Details – Auditing

The Details – Auditing section on the License Position page shows administrative information:

Property Notes
Created by The user name of the user who created the recommendation set.
Created at The date and time when the recommendation set was created.
Last updated by The user name of the user who updated the recommendation set.
Last updated at The date and time when the recommendation set was updated.

User License Summary Tab

The User License Summary tab informs you about the current position and the optimal license position, grouped by license type, at the time when the recommendation set was created. For more information, see License Position—Named Users.

The Show user license recommendations link below the summary view enables you to display detailed recommendations based on license rules (on the License Assignment Recommendations tab) and the Duplicate User rule (on the Duplicate User Recommendations tab). For more information about the content of both tabs, see Viewing License Assignment Recommendations and Viewing Duplicate User Recommendations.

Package Consumption Summary Tab

The Package Consumption Summary tab provides an overview of your company's package licensing situation, at the time when the recommendation set was created. For more information, see License Position—SAP Packages.