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About the Symantec License Inventory Manager

The Symantec License Inventory Manager (license inventory manager) is an enterprise asset management tracking tool that inventories Symantec Information Availability products in your network and consolidates critical information on the deployment of these products to facilitate license management and compliance tracking. Using the information provided by the license inventory manager, you can:

• Determine all the Symantec software products and licenses being used in your enterprise
• Achieve easier license self-compliance management
• Know your Enterprise License Agreement deployment status
• Reduce administrative overhead for managing license compliance
• Renew support and maintenance based on the licenses you have deployed
• Gain more control over your Symantec software usage
• Manage department chargebacks based on actual software usage
• Use more flexible licensing and pricing models
• Exploit detailed deployment data to perform return on investment analyses for purchased software

The license inventory manager is a three-tiered system that consists of a server tier, access point tier, and an agent tier. The server tier is the Symantec License Inventory Server, which consolidates and stores information that it gathers from the agents and access points.

The optional access point tier includes Symantec License Inventory Access Points and serves as a consolidation layer between the agents and server.

The agent tier includes Symantec License Inventory Agents, which are deployed on individual hosts in a network. Each agent gathers product information on the supported Symantec products that are installed on the agent's host, then sends the information to an access point or the server.