Unlimited software licenses

  • Rversion finale: Australia
  • Mis à jour 12 mars 2026
  • 1 minute de lecture

    • Unlimited software licenses help you to create entitlements with unlimited allocations and unlimited rights, allowing you to license any number of software installations with no true-up cost.

    A sam_admin or sam_user role can specify an entitlement as an unlimited license which allows for unlimited allocations (user or device allocations) and does not classify the license metric results as non-compliant.

    While creating or importing an entitlement, you can select the Unlimited license check box on the Software Entitlement page or on the Import Entitlement page.

    Considerations for unlimited licenses

    • Reconciliation process takes unlimited licenses into account where the software installations match and are licensed. Unlimited license is given priority over fixed amount license​
    • License metric results are generated separately for unlimited licenses.
    • An unlimited license perpetual entitlement can be associated to only one unlimited license maintenance entitlement.
    • Unit cost is equal to the total cost.
    • Downgrade rights are supported for unlimited licenses.
    • Purchased rights, Active rights, and Allocations available fields are not displayed for an unlimited license on the Software Entitlement page.

    Supported license metrics and license types

    The following license metrics are supported across all metric groups for unlimited licenses:
    • Per User
    • Per Device
    • Per Named User
    • Per Named Device
    • User Subscription
    • Named User Plus
    • Per Processor
    The following license types are supported for unlimited licenses:
    • Perpetual
    • Maintenance/Software Assurance
    • Perpetual + Maintenance/Perpetual + Software Assurance
    • Subscription