Tracking Microsoft RDS CALS Licenses

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Does ITMS support tracking of Microsoft RDS CALS Licenses?

Use Case:

• Using Microsoft RDS (Remote Desktop Services) CALs (Client Access Licenses).
• Overutilized the license and used a 3rd party product to view the licenses compliance.
• Need a way to track servers in RDS mode, clients using up the license, actual license servers details, and amount of available/used licenses.

Environment

ITMS 8.x

Resolution

ITMS doesn't provide an easy way to track "Microsoft RDS CALS Licenses" usage and it does not detect that some service is a RDS service (but we can do that based on "services" that we collects with "basic inventory"), nor we do have any mechanism that can detect that a client "uses" the license.

This is considered as a "Feature Request". 

 

 

 

Additional Information

License your RDS deployment with client access licenses (CALs)