Work with inventory search in License Manager - AWS License Manager
Set up for inventory searchUse inventory searchAdd automated discovery rules to a self-managed licenseAssociate a self-managed license with inventory searchDisassociate a self-managed license and a resource

Work with inventory search in License Manager

License Manager uses Systems Manager inventory to discover software usage on premises. After you associate a self-managed license with on-premises servers, License Manager periodically collects software inventory, updates licensing information, and refreshes its dashboards to report usage.

Set up for inventory search

Complete the following requirements before using resource inventory search:

  • Enable cross-account inventory discovery by integrating License Manager with your AWS Organizations account. For more information, see Settings in License Manager.

  • Create self-managed licenses for the servers and applications to manage. For example, create a self-managed license that reflects the terms of your licensing agreement with Microsoft for SQL Server Enterprise.

Use inventory search

Complete the following steps to search your resource inventory. You can search for applications by name (for example, names that begin with "SQL Server") and the type of license included (for example, a license that is not for "SQL Server Web").

Search your resource inventory

  1. Open the License Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Inventory search.

  3. (Optional) You can specify filter options to streamline search results as follows.

    Amazon EC2 resources
    Filter name Description Logical operators Supported values
    Resource ID The ID of the resource.

    Equals, Not equals
    Account ID The ID of the AWS account that owns the resource.

    Equals, Not equals
    Platform name The operating system platform for the resource.

    Equals, Not equals, Begins with, Contains
    Application name The name of the application.

    Equals, Begins with
    License included name The type of license included.

    Equals, Not equals

    • SQL Server Enterprise

    • SQL Server Standard

    • SQL Server Web

    • Windows Server Datacenter
    Tag

    A metadata tag key and optional value that's assigned to the resource.

    Note, the Not equals logical operator is only available if cross-account discovery is enabled.

    Equals, Not equals
    Amazon RDS resources
    Filter name Description Logical operators Supported values
    Engine Edition The database engine edition.

    Equals

    • oracle-ee

    • oracle-se

    • oracle-se1

    • oracle-se2

    • db2-se

    • db2-ae
    License Pack (Oracle only) The management pack associated with an Amazon RDS for Oracle license.

    Equals

    • Spatial and Graph

    • Active Data Guard

    • Label Security

    • Oracle On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)

    • Diagnostic Pack and Tuning Pack

    For more information about Amazon RDS database product licenses, see RDS for Oracle licensing options, or RDS for Db2 licensing options in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Add automated discovery rules to a self-managed license

After you add product information to your self-managed license, License Manager can track license usage for the instances that have those products installed. For more information, see Automated discovery of inventory in License Manager.

To add automated discovery rules to a self-managed license

  1. Open the License Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/.

  2. Open the Inventory search page.

  3. Select the resource and choose Add automated discovery rules.

  4. For Self-managed license, select a self-managed license.

  5. Specify the products to discover and track.

  6. (Optional) Select Stop tracking instances when software is uninstalled to make the license available for reuse after License Manager detects that the software was uninstalled and any license affinity period has elapsed.

  7. (Optional) To exclude resources from automated discovery select Add exclusion rule.

    Note

    Exclusion rules do not apply to Amazon RDS products (such as RDS for Oracle and RDS for Db2).

    1. Choose a Property to filter on, currently Account ID, and Tag are supported.

    2. Enter the information to identify that property. For an Account ID specify the 12 digit AWS Account ID as the value. For Tags enter a key/value pair.

    3. Repeat step 7 to add additional rules.

  8. Choose Add.

Associate a self-managed license with inventory search

After you have identified the unmanaged resources that you need to manage, you can manually associate them with a self-managed license, instead of using automated discovery.

To associate a self-managed license with a resource

  1. Open the License Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/.

  2. Open the Inventory search page.

  3. Select the resource and choose Associate self-managed license.

  4. For self-managed license name, select a self-managed license.

  5. (Optional) Select Share self-managed license with all my member accounts.

  6. Choose Associate.

Disassociate a self-managed license and a resource

If the licensing terms from your software vendors change, you can disassociate resources that were associated manually and then delete the self-managed license.

To disassociate a self-managed license and a resource

  1. Open the License Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose self-managed license.

  3. Choose the name of the self-managed license.

  4. Choose Resources.

  5. Select each of the resources to disassociate from the self-managed license and then choose Disassociate resource.