Manage PM Licenses
The Licenses tab, enabled only for paid subscribers, shows the number of licenses consumed by Patch Management (PM).
- You can see the type of Patch Management License and the related details. Example: Full
- You can see whether the Extended Security Update (ESU) license is enabled or disabled for you. The ESU patching is feasible only when the ESU license is enabled. Contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM) for the ESU license enablement.
- The ESU patching is supported for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 operating systems.
Only admin and super users can manage licenses. Sub-users can only view the license information.
From the Licenses tab, you can add necessary tags and assets associated with those tags to consume the Patch Management License. You can include asset tags to allow installing or uninstalling patches on the assets that are contained in those asset tags. Assets in the excluded asset tags are not considered for patch management, and you cannot deploy patches on those assets.
When the license consumption calculation is already in progress, and you add new asset tags, the license consumption calculation for newly added asset tags will start only after the first request is completed. The auto refresh rate to show data in the License Details section is 1 minute.
The license details for Linux, Windows, and Mac assets are shown separately. However, as the licenses are assigned to the assets in the background, a dynamic consumed license count is shown on the Licenses tab.
One license is consumed per asset. See the following screenshots that show the Total Consumption in various scenarios:
- License consumption within your license limit:
- License consumption matches your license limit:
- License consumption exceeds your license limit:
- The total consumption counter exceeds 100% if the number of assets activated for PM is more than the number of PM licenses you have.
- If the Total Consumption counter exceeds 100%, licenses will be consumed based on the asset activation time stamp in ascending order.
About Available License Count
The Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) application provides a free Patch Management license for the assets that are enabled for the VMDR application. However, these licenses have a limited feature capability. The licenses that are enabled for Patch Management have complete capabilities for the Patch Management application.
The Cloud Agent UI shows the total number of licenses, which include the licenses for VMDR and Patch Management combined. This might cause a discrepancy in the number of licenses shown in the Patch Management UI and the Cloud Agent UI.
For example, 100 licenses are purchased for the VMDR application and 50 for the Patch Management application.
If so, on the Cloud Agent UI total of 150 available activations are shown, and on the Patch Management UI, only the patch management licenses purchased, which is 50, are shown.