Hi Litesh, consumption rules affect your reconciliation results. They do not prevent software being installed nor licenses being allocated for a specific entitlement. Consumption rules define who is permitted to install/use the software, based on country, department, cost center, etc. When you run reconciliation, group the results using the same criterion used in the consumption rule. The reconciliation result will then show compliance positions for each group, and use the consumption rule as part of the calculation.
Example 1
- 1 entitlement with 10 rights
- No associated consumption rule
- 4 installations
- RESULT: Compliant
Example 2
- 1 entitlement with 10 rights
- 1 associated consumption rule: Engineering Cost Center
- 4 installations:
- 2 installations for users in the Engineering cost center
- 2 installations for user in the Finance cost center
- RESULT:
- Engineering: Compliant
- Finance: Not compliant
Hope this helps.
