Term

Definition

ASN

Advanced Shipping Notice.  Automated feeds from vendors listing purchased hardware and software.

MSL

Managed Software List (MSL)

Authorized or Deployed

MSL software item that has been officially recognized, through rogue discovery or portal approval, to be installed on a given asset.

Allocated or Covered

One or more actual license units have been assigned to cover an authorized software item.  An authorization is covered when all required license units have been met.

Application Owner

One or more individuals who have accepted the responsibility to report on the deployed position of their respective application(s).  Application owners are generally defined for more complex license arrangements, such as server based titles.

Harvest

To release, or add, one or more license units for re-use or initial use.  Adding new licenses via ASN is also considered a “harvest” event.

Instance

A single installation of an MSL application on a given hardware asset.  For servers, there may be multiple instances, each requiring one or more license units, installed on a single hardware asset.  For workstations, there is generally a single instance on a single hardware asset.

License Equivalent

License agreement allows a (typically) newer version to “cover” the installation of one version prior.

License Unit

An individual license.  For server based licensing, this may be a single CPU-based license or a single named-user license.  For example, if an installation of Oracle requires 4 CPU licenses, that would be 4 license units.  For the majority of workstation software, this is the single license that is required for each MSL application installed.

Upbound Equivalent

A license for a different application that, per the license agreement, can cover the current application.  For example, if a Visio 2007 license can cover a Visio 2003 installation, then Visio 2007 is an upbound equivalent of Visio 2003.

Downbound Equivalent

An installation of a different application that is being covered by this application's license.  For example, if a Visio 2007 license can cover a Visio 2003 installation, then Visio 2003 is a downbound equivalent of Visio 2007.

Rogue

MSL software discovered by auto-discovery that was installed without using the self-service software request portal, otherwise explicitly covered by a designated software license.