Activating a License

Certificate-based and custom licenses can be activated from the List Entitlements page.

To generate a license:

1. Click Activation & Entitlements > List Entitlements.
2. Search for an activation ID (entitlement line item, or web register key for Embedded) against which to generate a license.
3. Select one or more activation IDs and click Action > Activate or Action > Trusted activate, depending on the license type of the line item (certificate or trusted).

Note:Embedded entitlements cannot be activated from this page.

4. Enter settings for the first step in the Activate License wizard or the Trusted Activate wizard. (Required fields are indicated on the screen by a red asterisk.)
5. Click Next to configure hosts.
• To configure hosts for certificate-based licenses, see Specifying Host IDs.
• To configure hosts for trusted storage-based licenses, see Configuring Hosts for Trusted Activate.

The following is a table of fulfill-time license attributes that you may have to fill in. Some custom attributes may also be present.

License Attributes

License Attribute

Description

Sold To

This is the account to which the entitlement was sold to.

Start Date

This is the start date of the generated licenses.

• If the start date was set in the entitlement line item, it is displayed and not editable.
• If the start date was not set in the entitlement line item, it must be set when the first license is activated against the line item. This start date is written back to the line item and cannot be modified.

When activating several line items together, you are asked to specify the start date for those items without one. This date, once set at activation time, applies to all items that did not have a start date set during entitlement creation.

Ship To Email

The email address where a license generated against this entitlement should be sent. It may be the email address of one of the contacts in your organization and may have already been entered in the entitlement.

• A Search button is displayed next to the Ship To Email field. Click the Search button to select an email address for one of the contacts in your organization.
• Additional email addresses may be entered in a comma-separated list that contains no spaces.

Ship To Address

The mailing address where a license generated against this entitlement should be sent—your producer may already have entered the address of a contact at your organization.

Version Date

This is a date that identifies the version of the product or license.

Version Start Date

Define the date that will be used to compute the version date. This date plus the Version Date Duration (defined elsewhere) is used to compute the Version Date.

The Version Date is a date that identifies the version of the product or license.

Do you want to consolidate generated licenses?

Select Yes (default setting) if you are activating several line items together, and would like to consolidate multiple licenses into a single license file. When activating a single license, choosing to consolidate effectively produces only one license certificate, as there aren’t multiple licenses to consolidate.

Terminal Server

This setting enables or disables a license to run under Windows Terminal Server. To disable access via a Terminal Server Client, select Not Used.

To allow an application to run via a Terminal Server Client window, node-lock the license to the Terminal Server machine. The ONE_TS_OK (one session permitted) or TS_OK (multiple sessions permitted) keyword is added to the license.

Using this setting requires knowledge of the version of FlexNet Licensing the software application was built with—please contact your software producer.

FLEXid Sharing

Applicable to node-locked uncounted licenses. Enables mobile licensing by associating a license with a dongle. When the FLEXid is attached to a license server, the license floats on the network. When the FLEXid is removed from the license server, the license is available only on the standalone computer with the FLEXid attached.

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Time Zone

Controls whether or not licensing is limited to specified regions (expressed as time zones).

To limit usage based on time zone, choose a time zone value from the list.

To limit usage to machines running in the same time zone as the license server machine (served licenses only), choose Server Time Zone Only.

To ignore time zones for licensing purposes, choose Not Used.

Using this setting requires knowledge of the version of FlexNet Licensing the software application was built with—please contact your software producer. Time zone-based licensing applies to certificate-based licenses: floating counted, floating uncounted, nodelocked counted, and nodelocked uncounted.

The special Time Zone setting, Server Time Zone Only, is not applicable to licenses that do not include a SERVER line nor to nodelocked uncounted licenses, generally.

Virtualization Restrictions

Controls whether or not licensed applications are restricted to running only on physical machines or only on virtual machines.

To limit usage to physical machines only, choose Restrict to Physical Machines. This adds VM_PLATFORMS=PHYSICAL to the feature line.

To limit usage to virtual machines only, choose Restrict to Virtual Machines. This adds VM_PLATFORMS=VM_ONLY to the feature line.

To operate without restrictions, choose Not Used.

Using this setting requires knowledge of the version of FlexNet Licensing the software application was built with—please contact your software producer. Virtualization Restrictions apply to certificate license models: floating counted, floating uncounted, nodelocked counted, and nodelocked uncounted.

Borrowing

Applicable to counted, certificate-based licenses. A borrowed license can be used to run an application on a machine that is no longer connected to a license server.

To disable borrowing, select Not Used. If any other setting is selected, license borrowing is enabled.

If borrowing is allowed, the maximum number of hours that the license can be borrowed for can be specified as the default (168 hours, or one week).

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

User or Host Based

Applicable to certificate-based counted licenses and trusted floating transferable and floating borrowable licenses. Using this setting allows you to specify the number of users or host names that the license should be restricted to. This list is part of your options file.

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Overdraft

Overdraft is applicable to certificate- and trusted storage-based counted licenses and allows the customer extra usage. It allows for users not to be denied service when in a “temporary overdraft” state. This permission is given using the OVERDRAFT license keyword.

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Issuer

Applicable to all license models—Issuer of the license

This can be the software producer or the name of a retailer. If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Serial Number

Applicable to all license models—Serial number used to identify feature lines

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Vendor String

Applicable to all license models—Vendor string used to identify feature lines

This field usually contains a string value that is used by the software producer to track certain licenses.

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Reinstall

Applicable to trusted license models, for server activation requests, select the check box for reinstalls. The effect of the Reinstall check box is that it prevents the activation from consuming the line item count. For retail (client) requests, the Reinstall check box is not shown. (Any repeat retail activation is automatically treated as a reinstall.)

Notice

Applicable to all license models—Notice string used to identify feature lines

This field can be used by the software producer to pull in values of macros or variables. Or else it can be used to specify that a license is for evaluation only. If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Use Server

Applicable only to certificate-based licenses.

For uncounted features, USE_SERVER is used to force logging of usage by the daemons.

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.

Platforms

Applicable to all license models—Usage is limited to the selected platforms. The platforms are selected with check boxes and expressed using the PLATFORMS license keyword.

If you are required to set this attribute, please follow instructions provided by your software producer.