In Azure Licensing Manager, license pools are containers for license bundles that you can create to match the logical structure of your organization. They allow you to allocate the number of licenses available for each business unit within your company and provide reporting tools to give you intelligent and actionable data about your licensing costs. Among other things, this data can be used to distribute licenses where needed, reduce the number of licenses per unit and pass license costs to the business units responsible for them.
How to create license bundles
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On the navbar, click Azure License Manager to expand it and then click Manage Assignments.
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License bundles are the assignable policy object that you create and add to a license pool in order to grant to users with those bundles a particular subscription in Azure. Once you create a license bundle, eligible users can request a license in the IT Shop.
To add license bundles to license pools you need to have the License Admin for All Pools and Bundles Management Role.
How to add license bundles to license pools
On the navbar, expand Azure License Manager and select Manage Assignments.
Select the License Pools tab and search for the pool to which you want to add a license bundle.
Click the License Pool link for the target pool.
Click the License Bundles accordion to expand it and then click the Add New button at the top of the grid.
Fill in the fields on the License Bundle form that appears and then click Save.
Name — Enter
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Name | Enter a logical name for the license bundle |
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Display Name |
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Enter the name for the license bundle that users see when searching for it in the UI |
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Tenant Subscriptions |
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License Pool — Enter the name of of the license pool for the bundle and then click the tile for that pool to select it.
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Enabled — Check to enable the license bundle.
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Creation Location — Click the Select a Location link and then search for and select the location.
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When ready, click Save to create the license bundle.
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number of licenses allocated for the tenant subscription | |
Allocated Licenses | Select to enable the license pool compiler |
Enabled | Select to enable the license bundle |
Creation Location | Click the Select a Location link and then select the location from the tree |
Description | Description of the license bundle |
Auto Approve Revokes | Select to enable the system to automatically approve all bundle revocations up to the number specified in the Revoke Threshold Limit field. If not checked, then bundle revokes are sent to the license bundle owner for approval before processing. |
Revoke Threshold Limit | Specify the number of users who can be automatically removed from the license bundle by the system. Revocations above that number are sent to the license bundle owner for approval before processing. |
Grant Threshold Limit | Specify the number of users who can be automatically added to the license bundle by the system. Grants above that number are sent to the license bundle owner for approval before processing. |
When completed, the form should look similar to that shown below.
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You can repeat the above steps to add as many license bundles as needed to the license pool. |
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Next Steps
Assign license bundles from file
Add eligible assignees to license bundles
Add exclusion rules to license bundles
Exclude subscribed services from license bundles
Assign license fulfillment groups to license bundles
Assign responsible parties to license bundles