Activating the license counting process

How to activate the license counting process.

About this task

Currently, the association of the clients to one or more products is manually performed by the BigFix Inventory (*) user.

To enable the BigFix Inventory scanner to automatically provide this association, the administrator can activate the following license counting process by:

After performing all these actions, it is required to run a software scan, then import the software data to see the results displayed in BigFix Inventory.

Note: (*) The concepts and procedures described in the following sections apply to both BigFix Inventory and IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT).

The following diagram shows the license counting process.

Figure 1. License counting process
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