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License Activation & Deactivation

The following articles explain how to activate or deactivate Licenses.

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License Activation Types

The API provides options for activating/deactivating licenses using either the Online method or Offline method. For details, see License Activation Types.

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License Authorization Method

There are two types of product licenses based on how the client application authorizes itself to interact with a license:

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Key-based product licenses

Each license assigned to the product requires the client to provide a license key in order to activate, check or deactivate the license (property license_key in the request body).

The license response object will contain the license_key property, and the property product_details.authorization_method will be the string license_key.

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User-based product licenses

Each license assigned to the product has a corresponding "license user" instead of a license key. There are multiple ways a user-based product license can be accessed when making a request:

  • By providing the values for username and password for the license user

  • By providing the values for id_token and customer_account_code if using single sign-on authentication using Implicit grant

  • By providing the values for code and customer_account_code if using single sign-on authentication using Authorization code grant

In the license response object, product_details.authorization_method will have the string value user and the response object will contain the user object with information on the license user.

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License Types

The license_type property defines one of the 4 types of licenses based on their duration and how the license is used:

  • Perpetual: perpetual

  • Time-limited: time-limited

  • Subscription: subscription

  • Consumption: consumption

For more information see: License Types

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API Methods

For more information see: License Types

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API Methods

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