Managed license settings in License Manager
The following settings are available for managed licenses.
Account details
You can review your account details to see information such as the account type, whether accounts in AWS Organizations are linked, the account's License Manager S3 bucket ARN, and the AWS Resource Access Manager share ARN. This section also enables you to link your AWS Organizations accounts.
To distribute managed entitlements or self-managed licenses within your organization, choose Link AWS Organizations accounts. The distributed grants for managed entitlements are auto-accepted by all of your member accounts. When you select this option, we add a service-linked role to the management and member accounts.
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To enable this option, you must be signed in to your management account and all features must be enabled in AWS Organizations. For more information, see Enabling all features in your organization in the AWS Organizations User Guide.
This selection also creates an AWS Resource Access Manager resource share in your management account, which allows you to seamlessly share self-managed licenses. For more information, see the AWS Resource Access Manager User Guide.
To disable this option, call the UpdateServiceSettings API.
Cross-account resource discovery
You can turn on cross-account resource discovery in order to manage license usage across all of your accounts in AWS Organizations.
To enable cross-account resource discovery in your organization, choose Turn on for cross-account resource discovery. When you turn on the cross-account resource discovery, AWS Organizations will automatically be linked to perform resource discovery across all of your accounts.
License Manager uses Systems Manager inventory to discover software usage. Verify that you have configured Systems Manager inventory on all of your resources. Querying Systems Manager inventory requires the following:
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Resource data sync to store inventory in an Amazon S3 bucket.
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Amazon Athena to aggregate inventory data from your accounts in AWS Organizations.
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AWS Glue to provide a fast query experience.
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The following AWS Regions don't require Amazon Athena or AWS Glue to query or aggregate inventory data for Systems Manager inventory to discover software usage:
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Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
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Israel (Tel Aviv)
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
You can configure an Amazon SNS to receive notifications and alerts from License Manager.
To configure an Amazon SNS topic
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Choose Edit next to Simple Notification Service (SNS).
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Specify an SNS topic ARN in the following format:
arn:<aws_partition>:sns:<region>:<account_id>:aws-license-manager-service-* -
Choose Save changes.
