How you treat your Operating System license?
Altiris handles licenses and software purchases in Manage>Software | and | Service and Asset Management>Software Licensing.
This is where I add the licenses of Microsoft Office, Adobe applications and other software. Altiris automatically adds software like Office 2007 in the category: Desktop Application. But where It works with OS licenses? I found a category called Operating System at the same place.
My question is: Is it possible to control the OS licenses through the Altiris? (AMS 7.1)
When I'm on investigation or audit of Microsoft I need to provide the number of workstations with Windows 7 or other operating system and the relationship between my licenses. (I have OS licenses types: volume, FPP and OEM). I’m in compliance or not? Everybody needs this!
When I asked an engineer at Symantec (in Brazil) he answered: “According to my experience, we do not control the OS license. Only software such as Office , Photoshop , Corel , etc.”
Altiris does not control the whole lifecycle of my assets? OS license is an asset, must be saved invoice, contracts, serial numbers, different set of types (volume/OEM/FPP).