License Detail View
All licenses that have been issued within LicenseSpring will have their own license detail view.
In this view, you can see all information associated with the license, ability to edit the license's entitlements including disabling or resetting a license, review the usage of the license in table format, along with analytics.
You cannot edit everything within a license. For example, you cannot edit a license type. You can however, add/remove features, change the expiry date (for time-limited licenses) or max activations
Depending on the type of license that it is, you will be able make different types of changes.
Some of the common changes for all licenses include:
- Changing the number of max activations allowed for that license
- Setting the number of device transfers allowed or preventing license transfers altogether
- Preventing virtual machines
- Changing the license start date
- Modifying whether or not the license is a floating license
- Modifying the maintenance period for that license
Resetting a license will reset license entitlements, including setting total activations to 0, deactivating license devices, resetting total consumptions, etc.
Disabling a license will reject any attempts to activate, or perform a check on that license. Disabling a license will not change any of the entitlements to the license. The status of the license will be set to Disabled
A disabled license can be re-enabled at a later date. The status will revert to whatever the status was if it was not disabled: Inactive/Active
Deleting a license will remove it from the LicenseSpring database. This is a destructive process, and cannot be reverted through the vendor platform.
Any device that has been activated a license will appear in this tab:
You can retrieve more information on the computer that activated the license by expanding the "details" arrow:
Many of the fields are optional and do not need to be sent when activating a license. The only field that needs to be sent when activating a license is the Hardware ID.
Devices can send key value pairs back to LicenseSpring. You can retrieve the most current values sent by clicking on the "Device Variables" button.
Resetting a device from the license details view will set the status of the device to Inactive and decrement the Total activations field by 1. The next time that device attempts any action using the License API, the server will return a 4XX error.
Blacklisting a device will prevent that device from using it with this license. Blacklisted devices appear at the bottom of the view.
You can always unblock a device by whitelisting it.
When a license has been node-locked to a given device, a device-specific license file is created. which can be reach through the use of our SDKs to perform local license checks. This file is updated each time entitlements for the license change. You can download this file and send to the end user:
If the product has any custom fields defined, then the fields will always be available to all licenses issued for that product. You can override the value of the custom field for any given license.
You can add/remove or modify features for any given license provided that those features have been defined for the license.
If a feature has not already been added to the license, you can select which feature to add.
You can add an expiry date for an individual feature if you would like to limit the use of a module with time.
You can modify the allowances for consumption features:
The license usage report includes tabular data on events that occurred on the license, such as license checks.
- License activated
- Offline license activated
- License check
- Consumption added
- Max consumptions reached
- Feature consumption added
- Max feature consumptions reached
- License created
- License deactivated
- Offline license deactivated
- Floating release
- Floating borrow
- Trial license created
- Get device variables
- Track device variables
- Get versions
- Get installation file
You may download the CSV of the license usage report by specifying a date range, and clicking the download button.
The Analytics tab aggregates the license usage report data and plots it for better understanding.
Using the license detail view, you are able to see license-specific statistics, including:
- License checks
- Get device variables
- Track device variables
Consumption licenses have unique statistics displayed, including:
- Daily consumptions
- Total consumptions
- Overages
Consumption events are also tracked, such as:
- Reset consumption
- Add consumption
Note: License analytics also tracks license feature consumption
