License Management

In order to use Sal for License management you will need a compatible client software such as Munki 0.9.1 or newer and you'll need to tell the client(s) where to ask for license info.

This will prevent any additional installations of licensed software once the licensed number has been reached. Sal uses the 'Application Inventory' submitted to it by the munki client to update the used licenses quantity.

Sal configuration

Using the Sal 'Admin Site' you should find the Licenses section where you can add licenses to your server. This is done on a software per machine group basis i.e. each 'license' represents the total licenses for a piece of software usable by a machine group. It's usually easiest to use the 'Inventory bundleid' field to specify the software to manage.

Munki configuration

This is stored in Munki's preferences in LicenseInfoURL. For Sal this includes the long key string assigned to the machine group:

% defaults read /Library/Preferences/ManagedInstalls LicenseInfoURL
https://sal.example.com/licenses/available/yourreallyreallyreallyreallylongkey