How to create and edit a license pool

Create a license pool

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

From the main menu, click License-pools.

Click New.

Enter the name and description.

Click Save.

Edit a license pool

From the main menu, select License-pools.

Click the license pool in the ID column to display the selected license pool.

Click the tab you want to view or edit. See License pool details below. The General tab is displayed by default.

Save the changes.

License pool details

General tab

Field	Description
ID	License pool ID.
Name	License pool name.
Description	Description of the license pool.

License tab

This tab displays the licenses added to this pool. For more information on licenses, see Licenses.

Assignment tab

This tab displays the assignments of this license pool.

To add an assignment, click Add, specify the mode, edition, access type, and date, click Filter to get remaining capacity, then you can assign the available capacity to a selected tenant. You can also click Revoke to revoke licenses.

Note The maximum capacity (sum of current capacity and future capacity) can be assigned to a trial tenant is 10. For example, if current capacity of a trial tenant is 3, then you can assign no more than 7 capacity to this tenant.

Tenant tab

This tab displays the tenants assigned with licenses in this pool. For more information, see Tenants.

License pool status

You can change license pool status between Active and Inactive manually.

Status	Description
Active	Licenses can be added to an Active license pool.
Inactive	Licenses cannot be added to an Inactive license pool.

Status

Description

Active

Licenses can be added to an Active license pool.

Inactive

Licenses cannot be added to an Inactive license pool.

Delete a license pool

You can only delete a license pool with no license added.

From the main menu, select License-pools.

Select the license pool you want to delete.

Click Delete on the toolbar.

Click OK.