Software Asset Management administration

Software Asset Management administration tasks include adding custom part number records and custom license metrics. You can also refresh processor definitions and migrate software installations. Software Asset Management content service can be enabled, and migration procedures are also included.

The sam_admin role is required to configure administrative tasks. However, the sam_user role can view and read configurations.

Software Asset Management job results show the status of discovery model normalization and software usage import jobs.

Software Asset Job Results records are listed in the navigation path All > Software Asset > Administration > Job Results (see table for field descriptions).

• Enable sharing information with Software Asset Management content service
  Opt in to share unnormalized software installation data from your organization with Software Asset Management Content Service. You can opt out at any time.
• Exclude software assets on CIs
  You may want to manage software assets installed on a subset of your configuration items in the Software Asset Management application.
• Engineering license servers
  View the list of all the license management servers that OpenLM or Open iT connect with to get data into your ServiceNow instance.
• Add a software pattern normalization rule
  You can add a pattern normalization rule to normalize specific software products in your environment based on a common pattern.
• Add a software reclamation rule
  Add a reclamation rule to aggregate usage records and to identify unused software.
• Create a custom file rule to manually define file sets
  Create custom rules to manually define file sets and normalize data not recognized by the SAM API. After you have created custom rules, custom file sets can be discovered with File Signature Normalization and software records can be generated.
• Configure third-party discovery sources for Software Asset Management
  Set up a third-party discovery source for Software Asset Management to populate the Software Installation [cmdb_sam_sw_install] table with the software found in your environment.
• Delete uninstalled software from the Software Installation table
  Delete installations from the Software Installation [cmdb_sam_sw_install] table if those software installations are also uninstalled from a CI.
• Create a reclamation rule to import Microsoft SCCM usage data
  To import your Microsoft SCCM data, create a reclamation rule for the product that you want the usage information for.
• Add a custom part number
  You can add a custom part number to resolve an entitlement import error that occurs when a part number does not exist in the Software Library.
• Add a custom license metric
  You can add a custom license metric to modify the default reconciliation process.
• Refresh processor definitions
  After activating Software Asset Management, refresh processor definitions to normalize processors on servers in the CMDB.
• Migrate software installations
  If you are using Discovery, run this script after installing the Software Asset Management application to copy previously discovered software installation records from the [cmdb_software_instance] table to the [cmdb_sam_sw_install] table, which is used by the Software Asset Management application to store software installation records.
• Revert Software Asset Management customizations
  After installing the Software Asset Management application for the first time, or upgrading from the Software Asset Management Foundation plugin, you need to revert customizations for all features work. The Revert Customizations module in the Software Asset Management application can revert customized files related to Software Asset Management back to the base configurations that were skipped during the installation or upgrade process.
• Manage Software Library
  Use the Manage Software Library module to manually upload software library data to on-premise instances (instances not in the cloud to receive automatic Software Library updates). You can also choose to export your normalization content for participation in the Software Asset Management content service.

Parent Topic:Software Asset Management