License
See which Oracle packs and options your databases use, find new use, and count the processor licenses.
Before you begin
- You need View License. To mark a product licensed, you need Manage License.
- Scops shows what the databases report. Your agreement with Oracle decides what is licensed.
Find new use of a paid feature
Open Tools › License and click Needs Attention. It shows only when a use needs attention.
Click a row to see the features that the database uses.
A use needs attention when it is new in the last 90 days and not marked licensed, or when it is on Standard Edition.
Mark a product licensed
Click the product under Packs or Options.
Switch on Licensed.
New use of the product leaves Needs Attention. Use on Standard Edition stays, because packs and options need Enterprise Edition.
Count the licenses
Click Overview. The tiles show the processor licenses of Enterprise Edition and the sockets of Standard Edition 2.
Read By product for each pack and option. Under Where, select Group, Server, Environment or Platform.
To count one group or environment, or an earlier day, use the two menus at the top right.
For the sockets, cores and licenses of each server, click Servers.
See the features of a database
Click a database in any list. The panel shows each paid product of the database, with its features and their first and last use.
How Scops counts
| Item | Rule |
|---|---|
| Server | Counts once, however many databases run on it. A RAC database brings all its nodes. Under Where, a server in two groups counts in both. |
| Edition not read | A server whose edition Scops has not read yet. It is in neither count. |
| Enterprise Edition | Cores × 0.5, on all platforms. |
| Standard Edition 2 | Per socket, for servers with only Standard Edition databases. |
| Pack or option | The licenses of the Enterprise Edition servers where a database uses it. Other servers count apart: 12 + 1 not EE. |
| Cores | As the server reports them. Scops cannot tell hard from soft partitioning. |
| Named User Plus minimum | 25 for each processor license. |
| Feature use | A feature in DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS that was used at least once. Features that do not prove paid use, such as Partitioning (system), do not count. |
By default, the Repo Collector job reads the data every day at 03:00, and a new database within minutes. Usages counts the weekly samples that saw the product.
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Updated October 30, 2026