Product status

Product status is used to track the life cycle of individual products. The main idea is to have an overview of the company's attitude towards each product from a global perspective, regardless of the License registry or Software Profiles on individual machines. The Alvao system describes the life cycle of products using the following statuses:

Product status	Description of product status	Notes
Unclassified	New products that have not been approved or rejected yet.	Ticket
Approval	Product approval is in progress for use in the organization.	Fields: Request
Approved	The product is approved for use in the organization.	Fields: Request, Approved version
Approved - scheduled for decommissioning	The product is approved for use, but it is an older version that will be decommissioned on the specified date. On the date set in "To be decommissioned", the product status will automatically switch to "Decommissioned".	Fields: Request, Approved version, To be decommissioned
Decommissioned	The product has been decommissioned.	Fields: Request
Rejected	The use of the product in the organization was rejected during the approval process.	Fields: Request

If you want to use the product status feature, in Administration - Asset Management - Settings - General tab turn on the Alert for installed products with "Unclassified" status option to be alerted for the installations of the new products that should be evaluated.