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hello guys good

morning I hope you all are doing

well so in today's session we are going

to discuss about some important

terminologies which we are most

frequently using in it Asset

Management the first

term which we are using most frequently

is software

publisher so what is soft Ware

publisher software publisher is going to

be the Godfather of

software the reason

being software publisher is the one who

develops the

software based on the requirement those

are coming from end user or their

customer so basically software is going

to

help different customers to solve their

business

problems and publisher is targeting

those

problems and they are developing the

software based on the customers

need so whole and sole owner of the

software is going to be the software

publisher the second important term is

going to be the software license so what

is software

license

so software license is nothing but the

legal

Authority which is hold by software

publisher and has been granted to end

user or the customer who has bought that

software if any customer is claiming

that they have a software license it is

indicating that that customer or that

end user is going to be legal user or

legally authorized

entity who can use that software by

following some certain terms and

condition those has been said by

software

publisher you bought the software it

doesn't mean that you are become the

owner of the

software you just got and right to use

that software so we got legal authority

to use that

software the next term is

what is software deployment or what is

software

installation in order to get this

software installed on end users machine

that software needs to be deployed or

pushed onto the end users

machine early this job is getting

done with the help of service disk team

or it support

team sofware deployment

and software installation is going to be

the

same unless and until we install the

software application on end users

machine they will not be able to use

that software they will not be able to

work on the business requirement and if

you failed to install the software if

you didn't get the software installed on

your machine then you will fail to

achieve the business requirement and

definitely it is going to impact on the

business of your

organization so that's why installing

software on end users machine on time is

really very very important task which is

getting done with the help of it asset

management

team what is software

uninstallation software uninstallation

is nothing but removing the installed

software from end users

machine whenever we

done with the usage and there is no need

of software in that situation we may get

that software

uninstalled and we can use the same

software for another

user that is called as software reh

harvesting so in order to do the reh

harvesting software uninstallation is

very

important and most of the customer fail

to get the software uninstalled from the

xuser and without uninstalling they Ed

to Grant Authority or allocate that

license to the Y and that is going to be

the audit risk and they have to face a

lot when it comes to the audit so keep

in mind before transfer any software to

another user we have to get that

software uninstalled from the first user

for which we have done the

location and after that only we can

install it for the another

user next term is sof license Matrix

software license Matrix is very very

important aspect of the term in software

Asset Management because this

fundamental is going to help us to

understand the software usage the way we

can buy the

software we can measure the usage of

software and based on that we can

decide how much we have to pay to the

vendor or the

publisher how many quantities we are

going to use so usage measurement is

going to track with the help of software

license

metrics we will discuss different

metrics in upcoming sessions but for now

just keep in mind software license

metrics is helping us to understand the

usage of software the next time is

software reseller the software reseller

is a kind of bridge in between the

software publisher and the end user or

the customer who needs software

every time we cannot directly reach out

to the publisher or the owner and buy

the software from

them in that situation sometime we have

to buy the software or proc software

with the help of

reseller like

Shi you have to pay to the reseller and

you will get the software you have to

collect the purchase

proof and you can start using the

software by purchas purchasing it from

the

reseller then we have software product

description be it Hardware or

software each and every asset have some

detailed information that is called as

description if you talk about Hardware

asset like laptop desktop and server

whenever we are buying Hardware asset we

have have to collect the information

like the type of asset which you have

purchased the name of the vendor from

whom we have bought the uh

Hardware we should not the number of

quantities which we have purchased we

also have to track the warranty

details and we have to keep the purchase

proof handy with us because that is

going to be the one of the evidence for

us for the purchase of the asset when it

comes to the

software we have to collect the

information like

software name or the title of software

which we have purchased we should know

the number of quantities we have

purchased we should have information

about the software license metrics the

way we can use that

software we also know under which

agreements or contracts we have bought

the software

license we should know the license model

if the purchase software is Perpetual or

non-

Perpetual also we have to keep a track

about the

software user or the software allocation

to whom we are going to Grant the rights

to use that

software so these are the few basic

details which we have to capture in

order to collect the information about

the asset which we have

onboarded so next to that we have

software maintenance and Assurance the

software maintenance and Assurance is

helping us to understand the service

level which we have received from the

vendor or the

publisher with the help of software

assurance and maintenance we can upgrade

downgrade we can do the cross Edition

cross

platform based on the need if it don't

have active maintenance and

Assurance you won't be able to upgrade

your software you cannot expect the

support from the

publisher so that's the importance of

software assurance and maintenance

software agreement software agreement is

nothing but

the bonding or I will say the mutually

agreement in between two different

parties

where both the parties are agreed on

some certain terms and conditions by

accepting these terms and condition they

have to obey that terms and condition

there will like you will found some dos

and don't under the software license

agreement it will talk about the

security risk it will talk about the

usage rights it may talk about the

duration of your software contracts and

agreement your agreement started your

agreement

ended your renewal to

FMS so there are a lot of information

which is available in software

agreements which needs to be accepted by

publisher as well as the

customer along with that we will try to

understand different usage right or the

software usage

right here we have the software upgrade

right software downgrade right so

software upgrade right is talking about

upgrading your software from old version

into new version let's take an example

if we are using Windows

7 and due to the change in your

organization we have to move to the

Windows

10 so it is indicating that you are

moving from old version to new version

and that is called as software upgrade

right what about software downgrade so

software downgrade is talking about

moving down from latest version to old

version

if you take same example in reverse

order if you are already using Windows

10 and because of some reason you want

to move back to the Windows

7 it means that you want to downgrade

your software so moving down from latest

version to old version is your software

downgrade

right we also have cross Edition

route as we know there are lot of

editions available in the market

different publisher is having their own

Editions

but we will take some hypothetical

scenario where we know the home basic

Edition then we we are aware about the

standard edition we know the

professional Edition and we also know

the Enterprise

Edition so if you are using home basic

and you want to move to the standard so

what exactly you are expecting you want

to move from one edition to the another

Edition from home basic to standard or

standard to professional or professional

to Enterprise so if someone would like

to move from one software Edition to the

another software Edition so that is

going to be the cross Edition

right so how additions are

differ let's say your basic Edition

might have some minimal functions your

standard may have some additional

functions which is not available in

basic professional is having some

additional functions those are not

available in basic as well as standard

and

finally Enterprise includes all the

functions which we have in basic

standard and

professional and on top of that they

might have some extra functions those

are not available in three of them so

that is about the

additions now next we have the Ula end

user license

agreement you will always found Ula at

the time of installation of software we

have to accept some terms and

conditions while installing the software

we used to click

on we have to double click on the

executable file that is exe then we have

to click on next next and then we have

to click on some check bar check mark or

check bar where we have to accept some

terms and conditions and that is called

as Ula this terms and condition is

called as Ila Ila is nothing but your

end user license agreement that Ila is

helping us to

understand how can we use that software

what are the important dos and don'ts

has been written under the

Ula next term which we have OEM license

so what is OEM OEM is the original

equipment

manufacturer so em software is kind of

software which lives and dies with

Hardware so basically these are the

machine based softwares which comes with

hardware and dies with Hardware that's

why we are calling it out as a machine

based software those are attached to the

machine so life of em software will

always depend on the life of

Hardware we cannot transfer em software

from one machine to the another machine

if your Hardware crashed then your life

of your om software will

be

off or it will get

expired next we have the operating

system what is operating system it's

kind of system software without

operating system there is no value to

your laptop doesn't matter from which

brand you have purchased it even it's

Mac if we don't

have operating

system on your

MacBook then there is no value how much

you have spent to buy that

software so operating system is playing

very important role in order

to get your softwares or the application

software installed on your machine and

use your

laptop so what is EOL software or end of

life software so end of life software is

one of the

category where Publishers has announced

that they are no longer going to support

to these softwares even they are

Perpetual user can use this software on

their own risk but we cannot expect

support from the publisher like

Microsoft Adobe Oracle VMware so these

are the top Publishers we have hundreds

of publisher but I just called out name

of few

Publishers if they declare any product

end of life it is indicating that the

support from vender is over for that

product we have to use this on our own

risk and I will highly recommend if any

publisher announce any software end of

life don't use that

software because there will be very high

security risk and

if you got an attack you will have

to pay a lot for the same so request you

to don't go with the softwares those are

already announced by publisher as the

end of

life now we will try to

understand the inra of our organization

there is something called as data center

cluster server processor and core so

data center is one of the highly secured

zone of our organization where we can

expect the server so data center is also

called as server room so once we open

the data center you will found the

cluster so there will be different

cluster based on the bation of

application or the server or the usage

So within a data center you will found

different cluster like cluster a cluster

B cluster C within a cluster you will

found different server so group of

server is called as cluster So within a

server there is a import important part

which is processor and on top of

processor you will found core so One

processor might have multiple core and

one server might have multiple

processors so that is the basic

understanding about the data center

cluster server processor and core we are

going to discuss this in more detail

when it comes to the

licensing so now finally we are going to

discuss here about the software Security

Management as I have already explained

if any publisher announces any software

end of support we have to stop using

that software due to the security

compliance

risk also we have to make sure that we

are not going to use any software which

is

unauthorized which has been downloaded

from any Third Party Source

which is not verified by security and

compliance

team so once we done with that review

and we found that software is good to

install there is no risk associated with

that software then and then only we can

install that software in our

infrastructure so that security check is

very

important which we have to do before

installing any software so that's the

importance of Security

Management so guys in this session I

have tried my best

to explain multiple

terminologies at least I have given some

basic understanding what these terms

refers and then