Queries About Licensing - How is Sophos set up to issue the correct liceses for devices and is there a way to set up an automated process to generate reports about licesning?

Question

Hi, 
 I was hoping for some help regarding licensing on Sophos central. I've inherited looking after Sophos AV for our clients and I've noticed that if I create a new company and generate an installer and if I install on a server for example it knows to put Intercept X Advanced for Server on there. So, my first question is would my colleague have put something in place to make it know what software is required for what device automatically or does Sophos just do this itself? 
 My second question is I can see you can go to Managed Customer Usage and export licensing info to a csv manually, but is there any way to automate it? We're currently building a system to manage all our different product licensing and I was wondering if there was a way to automatically feed this information on a monthly basis to the system via email etc. 
 Any help on either query would be really appreciated. Thanks.

Shweta · Answer

Hi Simon Court 
 The installer automatically checks the operating system being installed and as a result, obtains a different set of credentials to download the appropriate software. Please check this article for the Sophos Central deployment methods. In addition to that if you want to automate the software deployment this link should help. 
 For the licensing report, unfortunately, you cannot schedule it.