CIS - Windows Server Proc Licences

ScouseSAM asked a question.

August 13, 2018 at 7:00 AM

Good Afternoon Snowmen (and women)! I apologise, I know there have been several questions related to CIS (I have searched) but it's just such a pain in the... Basically, I have noticed that my Windows Server estate is "non-compliant" according to SLM . I have identified the issue as being that, when added as a licence, SLM doesn't appear to be intuitive enough to count each CIS datacenter licence as covering two processors as the licence entitles. I have tried various settings to combat this but to no avail. I'm looking for the tidiest solution to this. They easy option would be to double the amount of the licences and assign them accordingly and add some notes around it or to use "dummy licences" but I'd like to avoid doing that as I really don't like "falsifying" (for want of a better word) licences, it just adds another level of management and interpretation that complicates matters. Is there a legitimate way to get this working correctly or does it take a bit of fiddling the figures to get it compliant? I'm sure there must be others who have encountered issues similar to this. Thanks in advance!

Ines Schaefer (Flexera Software)
8 years ago
Hi Craig, Jonathan is right, you have to enter the number of cores/ processors purchased. There is no converting from licenses to cores/ proc. Best regards Ines
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Jonathan
8 years ago
Hi Craig I believe that the solution to this is to add the number of items that the licence covers in the quantity, not the number of licences per se. Therefore in this case you'd need to double the number to represent the number of processors - this is what is shown on the page - i.e. Quantity X of Metric Y, though the manual misleadingly describes it as 'the number of licences included in the purchase'. Put a note on the licence record to make it clear what you've done for anyone else looking at it later! Jonathan
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