Maintaining License Cost Base

To review the costs spent on purchased licenses it is necessary to provide a cost of each application license. With Network Inventory this is done using the Maintain License Cost Base feature. This functionality can be reached using the Management Tools > Installed Applications > Maintain License Cost Base main menu item or by selecting the appropriate node in the Machine Tree. The Maintain License Cost Base dialog will appear on the screen. Pic 1

Maintain License Cost Base dialog

Pic 1. Maintain License Cost Base dialog

Within the Maintain License Cost Base dialog you can add, edit and remove information on the licenses purchased for the installed applications. To add new information on the application licenses and their costs press Insert button above the licenses list. The dialog will appear to specify license cost details. Pic 2

Specifying individual license cost details

Pic 2. Specifying individual license cost details

In the dialog appeared you are proposed to choose the application from the list of available, the number of licenses already purchased for the application, cost per license, choose note from frequently used or specify another one along with the custom data fields.

The information added into the license cost base can be used in the reconcile licenses functionality. You can add as many records as you want, edit records or remove any.