Manage Software Licenses and Application Control in Quest SMA

Manage Software Licenses – Manage software licenses and application control in Quest SMA with software catalog data, usage metering, dynamic labels, manual labels, application blocking and compliance tracking.

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

Workstation Configuration

Via Manual Labels

Manage Software Licenses – Activating this feature requires a label.

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

Manage Software Licenses – First step: Use a dynamic or static label with the “Metering Enabled” option checked.

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

• The “MeteredDevices” label allows measuring application usage.
• The “ApplicationControlDevices” label allows blocking application usage.

• To add labels to the workstations, select the workstation(s) and click on “Add Labels”.

• Add the two labels for license control.

Via a Dynamic Label

• Create a label.

• Enable control options in this label.

Application Control

Application Catalog

• In the software catalog

Manage Software Licenses – Three tabs are available:

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

• Discovered

Manage Software Licenses – These are applications listed in “software” (that appear in the add/remove programs) and known to KACE (list of about 45,000 applications).

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

• Undiscovered

Manage Software Licenses – These are applications not listed in “software” (that do not appear in the add/remove programs) but known to KACE (list of about 45,000 applications).

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

• Uncataloged

Manage Software Licenses – These are applications listed in “software” (that appear in the add/remove programs) but not known to KACE.

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

Usage Metering

• For example, for Office, you can determine the usage of this software.

• This will show the application usage and its duration.

Blocking an Application

• You can block the application, preventing users from launching it (KACE error message).

License Control

Manage Software Licenses – You can also control the number of licenses used compared to the licenses purchased.

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.

• In the application catalog, add a new license.

• Specify the number of licenses for this application and all the “Mandatory” information.

• In Inventory, then “License Compliance”.

• Click on “Immediate Update” to see the result of consumed licenses.

Manage Software Licenses –

Useful external reference: Quest KACE resources.