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Set License Budget

You can set the license budget for both the cost and the license pool to view and manage your license cost and consumption.

Set License Budget for the Cost

To set the license budget for the cost, follow the steps below.

  1. Click Set budget in Dashboard > Budget monitor or navigate to Billing > License budget.

  2. On the Budget page, you can set the budget for specific tenants or user container groups. Click Set license budget to enable the edit mode or hover the mouse over a tenant, a user container, or a user container group and click Set license budget.

  3. Select the start time of the time range for the license budget. The time range will be automatically set as one year, since the license budget you set is the annual license budget.

  4. Enter the license budget and click Save.

After you set the budget, you can view the following license budget details for your tenants and user container/user container groups.

- Total license budget ($) - Consumed budget for current month ($) - Total consumed budget ($) - Remaining budget ($) - Status

The following statuses can be monitored in the budget report.

- **Over** **budget** – The consumed license budget of a tenant or user container group exceeds the configured license budget. - **Warning** – The consumed license budget of a tenant or user container group exceeds the license budget threshold configured in **Settings** > **General settings**. Refer to the [General](#missing-link) section to configure the license budget threshold.

Set License Budget for the License Pool

To set a license budget for the license pool to monitor the license consumption of your tenants and user containers/user container groups, follow the steps below:

  1. Click Set budget in Dashboard > Budget monitor or navigate to Billing > License budget.

  2. In the Tenant or User containers/User container groups tab, click License pool.

  3. Click Set license budget, and the Set license budget page shows.

  4. Select the tenant or user container/user container group you want to manage on the left pane.

  5. Enter the license budget for each subscription on the right pane and click Save.

  6. You can also set a license budget for individual tenants and user containers/user container groups by following the steps below:

  7. Click Set budget in Dashboard > Budget monitor or navigate to Billing > License budget.

  8. In the Tenant or User containers/User container groups tab, click License pool.

  9. Hover over the name of the tenant or user container/user container group that you want to manage and click Set license budget (Button: Set license budget) to open the Set license budget page.

  10. Enter the license budget for the subscriptions that are available for the tenant or user container/user container group and click Save.

After you set the budget, you can view the following license budget details for your tenants and user container/user container groups.

- Total licenses in budget - Consumed licenses - Remaining licenses in budget - Status

Import License Budgets

You can configure or update the license budgets for the license pool or license cost by importing them with an .XLSX file. To import the license budgets, follow the steps below:

  1. Click Set budget in Dashboard > Budget monitor or navigate to Billing > License Budget.

  2. In the Tenant or User containers/User container groups tab, click Import license budgets.

  3. Select the type of license budget you would like to import. You can select Cost or License pool.

  4. Click Download template and make your configurations in the downloaded template.

  5. Upload the configured file to import the license budgets. You can upload an .XLSX file up to 10 MB.

  6. Click Import to import the license budgets. The status and report of the import job can be viewed and downloaded in the Job monitor.