Vendor Platform

License Detail View

23min

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.

License Details Page
License Details Page


Editing a License

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

Edit License Button
Edit License Button


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
Edit License Page
Edit License Page


Reset a License

Resetting a license will reset license entitlements, including setting total activations to 0, deactivating license devices, resetting total consumptions, etc.

Reset License Button
Reset License Button


Disable/Enable a License

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

Disable License Button
Disable License Button


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

Enable License Button
Enable License Button


Delete a License

Deleting a license will remove it from the LicenseSpring database. This is a destructive process, and cannot be reverted through the vendor platform.

Delete License Button
Delete License Button


Devices Associated With a License

Any device that has been activated a license will appear in this tab:

Devices Tab
Devices Tab


You can retrieve more information on the computer that activated the license by expanding the "details" arrow:

Device Details Tab
Device Details Tab


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.

Retrieve Current Device Variables

Devices can send key value pairs back to LicenseSpring. You can retrieve the most current values sent by clicking on the "Device Variables" button.

Retrieve Device Variables
Retrieve Device Variables

Device Variables Display
Device Variables Display


Reset Device

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.

Device Actions Menu
Device Actions Menu

Reset Device Button
Reset Device Button

Device Status
Device Status


Blacklist/Whitelist Device:

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.

Blacklist Device Button
Blacklist Device Button

Whitelist Device Button
Whitelist Device Button


Get License Refresh File

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:

License Refresh File Button
License Refresh File Button


Edit License Custom Field

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.

Edit License Custom Field Button
Edit License Custom Field Button


Edit Product Features of the License

You can add/remove or modify features for any given license provided that those features have been defined for the license.

Edit License Product Features Button
Edit License Product Features Button


Add/Remove a Feature

If a feature has not already been added to the license, you can select which feature to add.

Adding Product Feature Button
Adding Product Feature Button


You can add an expiry date for an individual feature if you would like to limit the use of a module with time.

Toggling Product Features
Toggling Product Features


Change Consumption Feature Allowances

You can modify the allowances for consumption features:

Editing Product Feature
Editing Product Feature

Adjusting Consumption Allowances
Adjusting Consumption Allowances


License Usage Report

The license usage report includes tabular data on events that occurred on the license, such as license checks.

License Usage Report
License Usage Report


List of license usage events

  • 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

Export License Usage Report in a CSV

You may download the CSV of the license usage report by specifying a date range, and clicking the download button.

Export License Usage Report
Export License Usage Report


Analytics

The Analytics tab aggregates the license usage report data and plots it for better understanding.

Analytics Tab
Analytics Tab


Analytics for All Licenses

Using the license detail view, you are able to see license-specific statistics, including:

  • License checks
  • Get device variables
  • Track device variables

Analytics for Consumption Licenses

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