Administration tool

License management

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Overview


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When the topic License management is selected, the application automatically searches for all license servers that are connected.


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The symbol in front of the license server name refers to if the server is a local or network/cloud server.


Picking the small triangle in front of the server or double clicking the server will open it to show all the license containers that the server has.


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From where for each container the same actions will show the container content, i.e. its available licenses. These license can be collected in packages, modules or made available as individual items.


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At the top of the list a search string can be entered to look through the list for a specific (package of) license(s).


With the Refresh command Reset, the content of the license container is re-read and the information is updated.


With the WebAdmin command AdminTool_Lic_3, the Codemeter WebAdmin dashboard is started in a default browser.



License


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The license has the following information:


ID

The identifier number of the license feature.

The id includes a check box to set the license to be grabbed when starting a new session and an expand/collapse symbol to view the content of the license.

 

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Name

The name of the license feature

Available licenses

The number of available (free) licenses related to the maximum number of defined licenses.

Type

The type of license.

Licenses_Soft= soft license (license file)

Licenses_Dongle= license dongle

Date

The expiration date of the license feature. A color indicates the expiration state:

Dot_green= (borrowed) license is valid

Dot_yellow= borrowed license expires in x days *

Dot_orange= borrow end date has expired

Dot_red= license has expired

 

* The warning value x is defined as a key WarningDays in the AdminTool.exe.config file that is located in the installation path.

Action

The possible actions to borrow a license; see below.

Borrowed

Indicator of the license borrow status.

Licenses_FreeForBorrow= license can be borrowed

Licenses_Borrowed= license has been borrowed


Information

Selecting a license for a new session might need to select other prerequisite licenses also.



License borrowing


Licenses can be borrowed for a dedicated period of time with only a few clicks.




Expired licenses


Licenses that are expired, but still exist, appear in the list.


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