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)`

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Software License Compliancy Overview

Universal Discovery helps manage your software costs and license compliancy obligations by identifying software inventory, measuring use activity, and automatically linking complex licensing and licensed application relationships. These activities enable your organization to better align software spending with business priorities. Moreover, tracking and maintaining software license information ensures that only the allowed number of licenses are in use, and that there are enough licenses for everyone using the software. This is often used when limited license counts are available to avoid violating strict license controls.

Universal Discovery builds relationships between licensed and licensing installed applications. Additionally, Hewlett-Packard provides documentation to help you calculate your license obligations for the following installed software packages: