How can I track third-party software or applications on my Amazon EC2 instances or WorkSpaces?

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To automatically track individual products based on their platform or application, use AWS License Manager. You can use License Manager to track resources for both EC2 instances and WorkSpaces.

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Note: If you receive errors when you run AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) commands, then see Troubleshooting errors for the AWS CLI. Also, make sure that you're using the most recent AWS CLI version.

Prerequisites:

• Install or update the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) on all of the instances that you want to track.
  Note: For information about how to use State Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, to update the SSM Agent, see Walkthrough: Automatically update SSM Agent with the AWS CLI.
• Make sure that all the instances that you want to track are managed in the AWS Systems Manager Inventory.
• To track on-premises servers, make sure that they're managed nodes. For more information, see Managing nodes in hybrid and multicloud environments with Systems Manager.

To track third-party software or applications, complete the following steps:

1. Open the License Manager console.
2. Choose Inventory search, and then search by your resource ID, platform name, application name, whether a license is included, or tags. Verify that the search results show all the resources that you want to track.
3. Create a self-managed license.
4. Create an automated discovery rule.
5. To track a license, open the License Manager console, and then choose the license name. The console displays all resources that that use that license.