Software Feature License Management

[pke11y]

Environment

• Nautobot version: ^3.5
• nautobot-plugin-device-lifecycle-mgmt version: ^1.0

Proposed Functionality

Many vendors use software licenses to manage the enablement of features on their platforms. Visibility of the licenses and their supported lifespan would be beneficial.

Reporting capability on the features in use and expiration dates would be very useful.

Use Case

[jvanderaa]

Makes sense to me for this.

[krnewman65]

We need this now.

[bradh11]

@progala - This may be good to consider for next release.

[progala]

This would be a great addition. We'll assess internally how much effort would be involved here.

[pke11y]

@progala @bradh11 would be a good idea to chat with @abates for the software license extension he has created. It would be great in lifecycle management.

[qduk]

@progala @pke11y Was there ever any decision or direction for this? I have a use case for this now as well.

[pke11y]

@qduk No decision that I'm aware of.

[chadell]

what would be the difference between a contract and a license? I mean, what if contract has a type for defining as a license? what attributes are missing?