How to use Product to Package Mapping

This video covers how to set up and use Product to Package Mapping.

Product to package mapping

The OS provisioning product-to-package mappings feature lets you map detected applications on source devices to software distribution packages that you've created. OS provisioning can then automatically install the detected applications on a user's source device to the newly provisioned destination device.

The list of applications that can be detected comes from the software license monitoring tool's monitored products list. When the inventory scanner runs on a device, it gives the core server a list of applications from the list that it found on the device. Only products that you've added to the monitored products list are available for product-to-package mapping.

You can map any software distribution package to an item in the monitored products list. For example, if Office 2003 is a monitored product, in smart migration, you could map it to an Office 2013 distribution package.

When you map a product to a package, you have the option of making that mapping critical. If a mapping is critical and the package fails to install for some reason, the whole provisioning job will fail and quit. If you don't make a mapping critical, OS provisioning will try to install the application and then it will keep going even if the install fails.

To map products to packages:

1. Click Tools > Distribution > OS provisioning.
2. On the OS provisioning toolbar, click the Product to package mapping button.
3. On the left side, select the monitored product that you want to map.
4. On the right side, browse the list of available distribution packages that you've created, and select the one you want.
5. Click Assign.