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4.4.3. Managing Manifests for Distributors (TECH PREVIEW)
Important
This is a tech preview feature in Subscription Asset Manager 1.4.
All subscription assignments and inventories originate in the Customer Portal. When a new Subscription Asset Manager organization is created a subset of those subscriptions must be attached to the organization. The relationship is between the Portal (main corporate account) and the Subscription Asset Manager organization (division).
The Portal and the Subscription Asset Manager organization communicate over a secure but external network connection. There may be some instances where a particular Subscription Asset Manager organization cannot or should not be accessible over a public network or a business reason why a Subscription Asset Manager organization should be subdivided into child organizations which are still visible to one another.
Subscription Asset Manager allows distributors to be created for a Subscription Asset Manager organization. This is essentially an organization within an organization. The parent organization then attaches subscriptions to the child organization and creates a manifest locally.
To create manifests for distributors:
- Open the Subscription Asset Manager UI and log in as the organization administrator.
- If necessary, switch to the appropriate parent organization.
- Hover over the Subscriptions tab, and click the Subscription Manager Applications item.
- Select the distributor from the list in the left column.
- In the distributor's Subscriptions tab, select the subscriptions to add in the Available Subscriptions area.
Be sure to set the appropriate quantity of subscriptions for each product selected. The quantity is the total number of subscriptions of that type available to the child organization. - Scroll down, and click the at the bottom of the window.Attaching subscriptions automatically updates the child organization's manifest.
- At the top of the Subscriptions tab for the distributor, click the button to export the manifest.
- Open the web UI for the child Subscription Asset Manager organization.
- Upload the manifest to the child organization, as decribed in Section 4.4.2.3, “Uploading a Subscription Manifest”.
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