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Prerequisites

To populate the Adobe Creative Cloud pages in Snow License Manager with data, you need inventory sources. To get accurate statistics and insights, you must add cost periods and link users.

Description​

To populate the Adobe Creative Cloud pages with data, you need inventory sources. To get accurate statistics and insights, you must add cost periods and link users.

Add inventory sources​

To get information on licenses, users, applications, and activity into the Adobe Creative Cloud pages, you need inventory sources.

  • Snow Integration Connector for Adobe Creative Cloud

    The connector imports information on license plans and users from one or several Adobe Creative Cloud portals. See Snow Integration Connector for Adobe Creative Cloud for more information and configuration.

  • Snow Inventory Agents

    The agents provide inventory of devices and Adobe Creative Cloud on-premises applications as well as user activity in those applications. See the links below for more information:

To get accurate statistics and insights in the Adobe Creative Cloud pages, cost periods must be added and Adobe Creative Cloud users linked to Snow inventoried users.

  • Add cost periods

    Information imported from the Adobe Creative Cloud portal only contains the total number of licenses and the number of licenses that have been assigned to users. There is no information about the costs for the Adobe Creative Cloud licenses in the portal, so the cost periods must be added manually.

    See Manage cost periods on how to add, edit and delete cost periods on the Cost page.

  • Link users

    To automatically detect license coverage of applications, users gathered from the inventory sources and the Adobe Creative Cloud portal users must be linked. The usage of on-premises applications can then be connected to the corresponding user and license.

    Users are linked during the import of the Adobe Creative Cloud connector by matching the email addresses of Snow License Manager users with the Adobe user names from the Adobe Creative Cloud Portal. If a match is found, the user is linked. When no match is found, the user remains unlinked. To see users that are not linked, go to the Link users page.

    See Manage user linking on how to improve automatic linking and manually link users.