Create entitlements for Microsoft Software Assurance in Software Asset Management classic

Define license details for Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) to manage your contracts start and end dates, software upgrades, and related software entitlements.

Before you begin

Role required: sam_user or sam_admin

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Software Asset > Licensing > Software Entitlements.
2. Select New.
3. On the Software Entitlement form, fill in the details about the software publisher rights that you have purchased and select Maintenance in the License type field.
   Note:

   Make sure that you enter the number of rights to be granted for the SA entitlement in the Active rights field. You can't add user or device allocations for SA entitlements.

   For a detailed description of the fields related to all entitlements, see Create entitlements in Software Asset Management classic.

4. Right-click the form header and select Save.
   An entitlement appears in the Software Entitlement list.

   Note:

   If you purchase a perpetual entitlement and associate only some of the rights of that entitlement with a SA entitlement, your perpetual entitlement is automatically split into two entitlements. For example, you purchased a perpetual entitlement with 50 active rights (E1). You associate 20 of these rights with 20 rights of a SA entitlement. Your E1 perpetual entitlement is now automatically split into two entitlements: one perpetual entitlement (E1) with 20 active rights (and 50 purchase rights) associated with 20 rights of the SA entitlement (M1) and another perpetual entitlement (E2) with 30 active rights without any SA association and no purchased rights.
5. To perform additional configuration, select your new software entitlement record from the Software Entitlements list.
   1. To link related perpetual and SA entitlements, use the following steps:
      1. On the Software Entitlement form, select the Related Entitlements tab.
      2. In the Related Entitlement field of the Related Entitlements list, double-click Insert a new row....
      3. When prompted, search for and select the related perpetual or SA entitlement that you want to link and then select the Save icon.
      4. Double-click the corresponding Active rights field.
      5. When prompted, enter the number of rights that you want to grant to the related perpetual or SA entitlement and then select the Save icon.
      6. Select Save on the Software Entitlement form header.

      To remove the relationship between the perpetual and SA entitlement, remove the entitlement from the Related Entitlements list.

      If you delete either the perpetual or SA entitlement that is linked, the other entitlement isn't deleted.

      If the entitlement has split and you have deleted the SA entitlement, the perpetual entitlement is not removed.

   2. To link your software to a newer version as part of your maintenance contract, select the Upgraded Entitlements related list.
      Note:

      This related list is only available if you selected Step-up as the entitlement license type.

      If the Next Version field is populated on the software model, entitlements with active SA are updated to the new version of the software model.

      After you have linked your related entitlements, if there aren't enough SA rights to cover the perpetual entitlement rights, an error message displays.

   3. To view all previously related entitlements that are linked, select the Entitlement History related list.
      Note:

      Validation is run against the active rights of all related entitlements automatically. If there's an error with the calculation, a message with additional information on how to resolve the problem is displayed.
6. Select Update.

Result

After you have created an entitlement, you can begin viewing license usage.

Record software rights for Microsoft Software Assurance

You have purchased 50 rights of Microsoft SQL Server 2016.

You have also purchased SA for your Microsoft SQL Server 2016 licenses.

To accurately track your licenses, associate your perpetual and SA entitlements.

While you're under active maintenance, Microsoft releases SQL Server 2016 datacenter. Step up from your current version to the new release by creating an entitlement for your upgraded software and link the related entitlements.