Oracle to Review Inventory Tools

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Oracle to Review Inventory Tools

Oracle deployments tend to slip through the net of most traditional ITAM tools.

With no license keys to track and sometimes no executables to discover, reconciling Oracle is commonly a separate project outside of most ‘desktop’ inventory processes.

“Even if the customer has very good ITAM processes and solid tools, discovering all Oracle instances, processors, CPUS, sockets and transposing these details into the worksheet can be quite a challenge.” from ‘Trouble Finding Oracle on Your Network?‘

Some ITAM Tool Vendors claim to discover instance of Oracle whilst others claim to recognise and manage licenses – but which ones really work and whose audit results will be recognised by Oracle for the purposes of an audit?

I spoke with Christina Crowley, VP Global License Management Services at Oracle, who confirmed that Oracle are currently working with some tool vendors to gain an understanding of what data the tools provide.

“The aim is give customers a choice in using additional tools as part of the Oracle license review process. The tools will not replace the audit, but will be used to support the data provided.”

Oracle will be providing a list of recommended tools later in the year. Stay tuned for further updates – In the meantime here are some useful links for managing Oracle licenses:

• Oracle LMS
• Oracle Pricing

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