Create License Pools
- Phillip Hanegan
License pools are containers that allow you to organize license bundles to match the logical structure of your organization. This enables you to allocate a specific number of licenses for each business unit within your company, while providing reporting tools that offer insightful and actionable data about your licensing costs. This data can be used to distribute licenses where they are most needed, reduce the number of licenses per unit, and assign license costs to the appropriate business units. Overall, license pools help optimize licensing costs while ensuring that each unit has access to the licenses they require.
You need to have either the License Admin for All Pools and Bundles Management Role or a combination of the Management Roles specified in the Azure Licensing Manager Management Roles topic to create a license pool.
How to create license pools
On the navbar, expand Azure License Manager and select Manage Assignments.
Select the License Pools tab and click the Add New button at the top of the grid.
This opens the License Pool form.Â
Fill in the fields on the License Pool form and click Save to create the license pool.
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Name | Name of the license pool |
Display Name | Name for the license pool that users see when searching in the UI |
Description | Description of the license pool |
Enabled | Select to enable the license pool compiler |
Creation Location | Click the Select a Location link and then select the location from the tree |
Next Compilation Time | Click the field and select the desired compilation date and time from the calendar |
Job Schedule Interval | By default, the job is set to start running once every 24 hours on the license pool creation date and end in 97 years. You can change this as needed by clicking the calendar controls and selecting the desired dates, as well as change how often the job runs by changing the interval schedule. |
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