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Merge and Assign Software Components

Software suites let you group related software components together for easier license tracking and reporting. This page covers how to assign components to a suite and how to handle components that share the same name before merging.

Assign Software to a Suite​

  1. Navigate to Resources > Software Components > All Software Components.
  2. Select the components you want to merge and choose Assign Software to Suite from the Actions dropdown.
  3. Confirm to run the action.
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  1. In the Assign Software to Suite dialog, click Select Software Suite and search for the existing software component that will become the suite. Click Assign to confirm.
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View Assigned Components in a Suite​

To view the software components in a suite, select the suite Name from the Software Components list page. The assigned software components are listed in the Software Components in this Suite box.

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Merge Software Components with the Same Name​

To merge software components with the same name into a suite, you must first merge them, then add them to a suite. A new component suite must have a unique name + vendor combination — it cannot match an existing software component.

For example, given these three components:

  1. ABC — vendor Cisco
  2. ABC — vendor MS
  3. ABC-Suite — vendor None

You can merge either component 1 or component 2 into component 3 without issue. However, merging both 1 and 2 into 3 at the same time will produce a validation error. In that case, merge 1 and 2 together first, then merge the result into 3.