Summary of SOAP Web Service Operations

A client application can call FlexNet Operations Web Services to import product and entitlement data from a back-office system, generate licenses, and manage users and accounts. FlexNet Operations supports the following Web Services, each providing a number of operations.

Summary of FlexNet Operations Web Services

SOAP Web Service	Description
Product Packaging Service	• Create, update, and delete features, feature bundles, products, suites, and maintenance. • Set the state of features, feature bundles, products, suites, and maintenance. • Get the number of features, feature bundles, products, suites, and maintenance and the entities themselves that match specified criteria. • Create, update, and delete relationships between products, suites, and maintenance. • Create and delete unassigned part numbers. • Get the identifiers for existing license models. • Get the identifiers for existing transaction keys. • Get license technologies and their license generator configurations. • Manage product lines.
Entitlement Order Service	• Get entitlement-time license model attributes. • Create, update, and delete simple and bulk entitlements and their line items. • Set the state of an entitlement. • Email entitlement certificates to customers. • Get the number of existing entitlements and activatable line items and the entitlements and activatable line items themselves that match specified criteria. • Link and unlink maintenance line items and their parent/associated line items. • Merge entitlements. • Transfer entitlements and line items. • Split line items and bulk entitlements, and get matching line items and bulk entitlements to receive the splits. • Renew, upgrade, and upsell entitlements. • Import web register keys; get the number of web register keys and the web register keys themselves that match specified criteria. • Map activation and entitlement IDs to self-registered End-User Portal users.
License Service	• Get fulfillment-time license model attributes. • Verify the generation of certificate licenses. • Generate certificate licenses, individually or in batch mode. • Email, return, rehost, and repair certificate licenses. • Consolidate licenses and email consolidated licenses. • Activate, return, and repair licenses with short codes. • Get existing simple and consolidated fulfillments that match specified criteria. • Get host attributes from a license technology. • Set the license text for on-hold fulfillments. • Delete on-hold fulfillments. • Submit an offline activation request for trusted activation. • Transfer entitlements and fulfillments on a particular host from one customer account to another.
User Account Hierarchy Service	• Add, update and delete account hierarchy information. • Link accounts in hierarchies. • Relate partner accounts. • Add, update and delete user information. • Update user roles. • Query for parent accounts, subaccounts, and related partner accounts.
FlexNet Authentication Service	• Provide a token to an external application to support a single sign-on mechanism for the external application and FlexNet Operations.
Device Management Service	• Create, update, and delete client, server, and test devices. • Set the state of devices. • Get the number of devices and the devices themselves that match specified criteria. • Generate pre-installed licenses for devices. • Generate a capability response from a submitted capability request or a capability request synthesized from submitted input data. • Link and remove product line items.
Download Packaging Service	• Add-on to FlexNet Operations Entitlement Management Service. • Components are files and download packages. • Includes additional attributes of End User License agreements.
Usage Service	• Retrieve the end-user’s product line, meter, unit of measure, actual use, entitled quantity, overage since statement, overage since reset, percentage, interval/reset, and time period.

To see the list of FlexNet Operations services, open a browser to https://<host:port>/flexnet/services.

Note that the URL for the Download Packaging Service differs from the URL above. The Download Packaging Service is available at https://<siteID>-fno.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/services/<version>/DownloadPackagingService, where <siteID> is your organization’s site ID which is supplied by Revenera.

For a description of Download Packaging Service versions, refer to Web Service Version History.

Important:Several other Web Services are displayed on this page. The AdminService and Version Web Services are specific to Axis. The ActivationService is a proprietary Web Service. Only the Web Service operations documented in this manual are intended to be invoked directly by a producer’s client application.