Getting Started with Entitlement Management

This section Getting Started with Entitlement Management presents fundamental FlexNet Operations concepts and uses exercises to guide you through creation of a product entitlement, including the supporting tasks. Topics and exercises are presented in the order that a Producer Portal user would perform them when setting up a new customer account, customer user, and product, and then creating an entitlement.

The intended audience for Getting Started with Entitlement Management is the first-time Producer Portal user, or one without FlexNet Operations training or experience. This getting started section is organized into the following topics.

Topic	Content
Introduction	Overview of this getting started section, exercise prerequisites, and a summary of the FlexNet Operations license lifecycle.
Account and User Creation	Customer account, customer user, and producer account concepts with exercises that demonstrate how to create each of them. Brief descriptions of advanced account topics with references for more information.
Product Creation	Product packaging concepts with exercises that demonstrate how to create, link a license model to, and deploy a product. Brief descriptions of advanced product packaging topics with references for more information.
Entitlement Creation	Entitlement concepts with exercises that demonstrate how to create, configure, and deploy an entitlement, and how to review it on the End-User Portal. Brief descriptions of advanced entitlement topics with references for more information.

To view a brief, informative video that walks you through the exercises in Getting Started with Entitlement Management, click here. We recommend that you read this getting started section in full, to gain an understanding of the concepts it covers, before you view the video.