License Detail View
All licenses that have been issued within LicenseSpring will have their own license detail view.
To access the license editing page via the Orders tab, follow these steps:
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.
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
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
Reset a License
Resetting a license will reset license entitlements, including setting total activations to 0, deactivating license devices, resetting total consumptions, etc.
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
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
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.
Devices Associated With a License
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 reached 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:
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 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.
Add/Remove a Feature
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. Additionally, you can define a valid_duration ( same like for a time limited license, eq- 1m, 1y, etc. ) which will be recalculated as expiry_date at the time of the first license activation.
Change Consumption Feature Allowances
You can modify the allowances for consumption features:
License Usage Report
The license usage report includes tabular data on events that occurred on the license, such as license checks.
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.
Analytics
The Analytics tab aggregates the license usage report data and plots it for better understanding.
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
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