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title: Legacy Software Asset Management plugin setup process
description: To get started with the legacy Software Asset Management \(com.snc.software\_asset\_management\) plugin, you need to identify and discover software owned, create software models, create license records, and configure software counters.
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release: australia
product: Software Asset Management
classification: software-asset-management
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# Legacy Software Asset Management plugin setup process

To get started with the legacy Software Asset Management \(com.snc.software\_asset\_management\) plugin, you need to identify and discover software owned, create software models, create license records, and configure software counters.

To get started with the legacy Software Asset Management \(com.snc.software\_asset\_management\) plugin, perform the following:

-   Identify the software that your organization owns using one of the following methods:
    -   Use Discovery to identify currently owned software and begin working with the legacy Software Asset Management \(com.snc.software\_asset\_management\) plugin.
    -   Identify and add the software manually or with a third-party tool.
-   Make the Configuration Management Database \(CMDB\) accurate.

    Clean up information in CMDB. At first, focus on your top 10-20 software vendors.

-   Create software models.

    Create software models for all of the software that your organization wants to monitor. Software models can also be imported from another source, such as a Discovery application, an existing data set of software licenses, or a third-party source.

-   Create software license records.

    Create software license records for all of the software that your organization owns. This information can also be based on information from a purchasing source or imported as a spreadsheet.

-   Configure software counters.

    Configure software counters to view your organization's software compliance levels for all of your software.


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