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Manage Oracle licenses

When you have registered an Oracle order, you can assign the purchased licenses to your Oracle environment. You can either assign them manually or use the auto-assignment function.

Assign Oracle licenses​

Note that to assign the licenses included in an order, the status of the order must be Complete.

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To see the status of your Oracle orders, go to Applications > Oracle, select the Entitlements tab, and then select the Orders view. The status for each order is shown in the Completeness column.

To assign licenses to an Oracle product:

  1. On the SAM Core menu, under Applications, select Oracle, and then select the Entitlements tab.

  2. Select the License Assignments view.

  3. Select the entity type for which you want to view the Oracle license compliance position: Virtual machines, (Physical) Servers, or Datacenters.

  4. Select the virtual machine, server, or datacenter table row with the status Not compliant that you want to investigate.

    For a description of all possible statuses shown in the Status column, see Oracle license compliance statuses.

  5. If the Navigating to another environment dialog opens, it means that you cannot assign licenses to the selected environment because of the Oracle license requirements calculation rule sets. For example, Oracle does not allow you to license the resources assigned to a VM; you need to license the entire physical infrastructure. For more details, see Oracle license compliance: Supported rule sets. Select Go to to go to the environment you want to assign licenses to.

  6. On the resulting Computer or Datacenter License Assignment page, select either the Database Products tab or Middleware Products tab, so that you can investigate which products do not have the required license coverage.

    Products in table rows with the value No in the Is satisfied column do not have the required license coverage.

  7. Select the Edit icon in the rightmost column for the product to which you want to assign licenses to go to the Find licenses view for the product.

  8. In the Available licenses section, select the right arrow on one of the product rows, select the number of desired licenses, and then select Assign.

  9. Select Save changes in the bottom-right corner of the view to save the license assignment.

Auto-assign Oracle licenses​

Instead of assigning the licenses manually, you can select to use the auto-assign functionality.

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If auto-assign is enabled, compliance for your Oracle environment is likely to be affected. Read Auto assignment of Oracle licenses before enabling the feature.

  1. On the SAM Core menu, under Applications, select Oracle, and then select the Entitlements tab.

  2. Select the Auto assignments view.

  3. Turn on the Auto assign is active toggle.

Instead of using the default auto-assignment rules, you can define your own rules, see Configure rules for auto-assigning Oracle licenses.

Configure rules for auto-assigning Oracle licenses​

To create your own user-defined auto-assignment rules to be used instead of the default rules:

  1. On the SAM Core menu, under Applications, select Oracle, and then select the Entitlements tab.

  2. Select the Auto assignments view.

  3. Select Configure auto assignment rules to start the four-step wizard.

  4. In the Configure rules step, switch the Status toggle to Active for rules that you want to activate, and then select Continue.

    To enter more than one value in a Value box, use a vertical bar ( | ) to separate the values. Do not add space characters before or after use of the vertical bar.

    EXAMPLE

    If the rule Database name is activated and its Value is DBName|Maintenance, auto assignment will only affect environments where the database name contains DBname or Maintenance.

  5. In the Confirm environments step, preview the results for every rule before they are applied, and then select Continue.

    The number of covered environments and the percentage of the total number of environments are displayed, per rule. When the number of covered environments is larger than zero, you can select the linked text to see a preview list of the environments that will be affected by the rule.

  6. In the Confirm licenses to be assigned step, review the displayed information, and then select Complete configuration.

    The displayed information is:

    • The total number of orders that will be used to assign licenses.

    • The total number of licenses that will be assigned when the rules are applied.

      The number of licenses is also displayed by NUP and Processor, respectively.

    • The total number of environments that will be covered.

    • The compliance status before and after license assignment.

  7. In the Finish step, perform one of the following actions:

    • Select Trigger the auto assignment process now if you want the configured auto-assignment rules to take effect immediately.

    • Select Return to overview if you do not want the configured auto-assignment rules to take effect immediately. The rules will run according to schedule, that is, every day at 07:00.

Unassign Oracle licenses from orders​

  1. On the SAM Core menu, under Applications, select Oracle, and then select the Entitlements tab.

  2. Select the Orders view.

  3. In the list of Oracle orders, select the checkboxes for the orders from which you want to unassign licenses.

  4. Select Unassign licenses in the upper-right corner of the view, and then select Unassign licenses in the dialog.

Unassign Oracle licenses from products​

  1. On the SAM Core menu, under Applications, select Oracle, and then select the Entitlements tab.

  2. Select the Orders view.

  3. In the list of Oracle orders, select the order containing the product or products from which you want to unassign licenses.

  4. Select Unassign licenses in the upper-right corner of the view, and then select Unassign licenses in the dialog.

  5. On the Products tab, select Manage license assignments in the upper-right corner of the view.

  6. In the list of products, select the checkboxes for the products from which you want to unassign licenses, and then select Remove licenses in the dialog.

Unassign Oracle licenses from computers or datacenters/clusters​

  1. On the SAM Core menu, under Applications, select Oracle, and then select the Entitlements tab.

  2. Select the License assignments view.

  3. Select Virtual machines, Servers, or Datacenters to show the applicable type in the list.

  4. Select Manage license assignments in the upper-right corner of the view.

  5. In the list of devices, select the checkboxes for the computers or datacenters/clusters from which you want to unassign licenses.

  6. Select Unassign licenses in the upper-right corner of the view, and then select Remove licenses in the dialog.