Are you utilising Snow License Manager? Acquiring a SAM tool is merely the initial step. At The SAM Club, we endeavour to ensure that our clients consistently enhance their licensing to minimize software costs whenever feasible.
Do you currently have a managed service for the ongoing management of Snow License Manager? If so:
- how often do you hear from them?
- do they manage all software vendor licenses or the top one or two only e.g., Microsoft. At The SAM Club our service includes all software.
- how many Alerts are showing on your Snow Dashboard under ‘Critical’ or ‘Warnings’? How many of these relate to:
- quarantined computers
- active computers that have not been inventoried
- virtual machines without a locally installed inventory client or have Windows Server installed but are missing a physical host
- applications nearing or have passed end of life or support
- if you click on your name in the top right-hand corner and the ‘About’ drop down. The screen that pops up shows how many Snow licenses you have purchased compared to how many inventoried computers. If the number of inventoried computers exceeds the number of licenses, then the data shown within Snow will not be accurate.
- if you go to ‘Reports’ > All Reports and type in ‘DISCO’ and run the ‘Discovered assets that are not inventoried’ report. Can you see the ‘Source’ of Active Directory mentioned? If not, this indicates the AD connector has not been switched on and therefore you cannot see what assets are in AD but not inventoried in Snow.
With the list above, several of these will influence the effective license position shown within Snow and you will most probably be reviewing inaccurate data.
At The SAM Club, we are independent and not a software reseller. Our objective is to reduce your software licensing spend whilst ensuring your firm remains compliant and that all starts with trustworthy data!
If you would like a free 30-minute review of your Snow Software installation or to discuss The SAM Club service in more detail, then please contact us at info@thesamclub.co.uk
