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Manual Licenses

TheYou firstcan method for managingmanage software licenses is to manually createby thecreating queryan toinventory searchquery. inventory. You selectSelect New License from the toolbar andtoolbar, give itthe license a name.name, Then youand set the license expression to betrack based on managingeither an application or a font.

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Build the inventory search for the item you want to track, for example Chrome browser. FileWave can choose to manageevaluate items installed in all three ofacross the operating systems FileWaveit supportsmanages from athe "computer"computer pointside. ofAndroid view.can (Android,also dueappear tohere itsbecause the FileWave client,client istreats managedit as a hybrid betweenof computer and mobile.mobile Next, you create the inventory search; e.g. the Chrome browser.
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Now,Next, gather a count ofenter the licenses you have.actually Thisown. You can be done by enteringuse purchase order information,details or just using whatever accounting methodif you have tothem, createor any internal tracking method that gives you a pseudo-purchasereliable order.count. You can enteradd multiple purchases to the same license purchasesrecord, here.which Italso will givegives you ana accountingsimple history asfor wellthat asitem.

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Set a warning threshold so FileWave can alert you manage multiple licenses in one location.

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Then add a trigger value to warn whenbefore you are runningrun out of available licenses.

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That willcompletes completethe ourmanual license query. Looking at the result inIn the License Management pane yields:
you can review the current results and compliance state.

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When you double-Double-click on the license,license youentry willto see the details ofview the query displayed.details Theand windowthe will actually display a significant amount ofdevice information aboutbehind yourthe search results, including detailed device info.result.