License Allocation History Report
The License Allocation History reports lists all devices that have been allocated to, or deallocated from, any licenses within a specified period before today. This report enables operators who manage software assets to analyze changes in license consumption, which have been affected by allocations, over a recent time period. Typically, these operators will view this report when they notice a change in license consumption. This report enables them to identify any allocation changes in the recent past that may explain these changes, and gain insight into the possible causes of these changes.
Generating the report
- Navigate to .
- In the top left corner is a standard filter labeled Period. From the adjacent drop-down list, choose your preferred reporting period. You can choose the last 7, 14, 30, or 90 days, all measured from today. The default selection is seven days.
- Click Run report.
Reading the report
The following columns (listed alphabetically) are available in this list. By default, some are available through the column chooser.
Column name | Description |
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Action | Indicates whether the inventory device has been allocated to, or deallocated from, a license. |
Date | The date when the change was made. |
Inventory device properties | |
Column name | Description |
Assigned user |
The user assigned to this device. Editable in the Assigned field in Ownership tab of the inventory device properties. |
Calculated user |
The name of the most frequent user of this inventory device, over the previous 10
inventory collections. This value is calculated as follows:
The value of this field is automatically generated by FlexNet Manager Suite. |
Corporate unit |
The corporate unit responsible for the inventory device. Editable in the Ownership tab of the inventory device properties. |
Cost center |
The cost center responsible for all costs incurred for this inventory device. Editable in the Ownership tab of the inventory device properties. |
Inventory device name |
The name of the device. The compliance calculation updates this field with the machine name returned in inventory (matched by serial number). Editable in the Name field on the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). |
Inventory device type |
Specifies the type of the inventory device, which may be any of the
following values:
The Inventory device type field is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties. The value may be overwritten by incoming inventory. |
Linked asset |
Indicates whether this device is, or is not, linked to an asset. The link between an inventory device and an asset is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties. |
Location |
The location within your enterprise that is responsible for the device. Editable in the Ownership tab of the inventory device properties. |
Manufacturer |
The manufacturer of the inventory device. Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). |
Model |
The manufacturer’s model name or number for this device. Editable in the Model field in the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). If the value is gathered from inventory, it cannot be edited, however it can be overridden by entering a new value in the Overridden field in General tab of the inventory device properties. The original value continues to display on the General tab, alongside the overridden value, and may be restored at any time. |
Serial no. |
The serial number of the device, attempting to uniquely identify either the hardware (for a stand-alone device) or the virtualization container (for a virtual machine). For records created automatically (or updated) from incoming inventory, this is as reported in inventory. For manually-created inventory device records, this value is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties. This value is not editable for records created or updated from collected inventory. |
Status |
Indicates the current state of a device. It can have any of the
following values:
Provided that the inventory device has not [yet] been linked to an asset record, this value is editable in the General tab of the inventory device (although Awaiting Inventory is no longer available once inventory has been collected for the device, and Archived can never be set manually). |
VM name |
The friendly name of the virtual machine, as displayed in the user interface of the VM management software (such as ESX), and returned in inventory (matched by serial number). Editable in the VM Properties tab of the inventory device properties. The compliance calculation updates this field with the machine name returned in inventory (matched by serial number). |
VM type |
The type of the virtual machine. For manually-created records, this value is editable in the VM Properties tab of the inventory device properties for the Virtual machine. The value may be overwritten by incoming inventory. |
License properties | |
Corporate unit, Cost center, Location |
Details about the ‘ownership’ of this license by enterprise groups. These settings are, in the main, an administrative record of convenience. These settings:
Editable on the Ownership tab of the license properties. |
Edition |
The edition property of the license, which may or may not be the same as the edition of the licensed application. Editable in the Identification tab of the license properties. |
License name |
The license name may be:
The Name value is editable in the Identification tab of the license properties. |
Manager |
The delegate who has responsibility for the license (for example, the manager of the corporate unit that owns the license). Editable on the Ownership tab of the license properties. |