Administering Licenses

You can perform simple license administration tasks on licenses after enrolling them.

  1. Click the Administration tab:



  2. Check the check box next to the desired server name (there may be several server names) to view the licenses enrolled on that server.

    The licenses you enrolled are listed:

    A tool tip is displayed on the vertical scrollbar to display the total number of lines and the range of lines displayed.

    Time values displayed in UTC.

  3. Click the Display superseded licenses button if you wish to list licenses belonging to a replacement group which is not the highest. Click again to revert back to the default (Hide superseded licenses).

    This button is grayed out if no superseded licenses exist. This is always the case when connected to a license server on a level higher than or equal to R2016x.

  4. The next button to the right displays one of three choices, depending on the context:

    • if any licenses have expired, and can be removed, the Remove expired licenses button will be displayed. Click this button to remove any licenses from the list which have expired. This option is not available in restricted mode.
    • click the Hide expired licenses button to hide from the GUI the expired licenses belonging to a replacement group containing non-expired licenses and which cannot be removed. Expired licenses belonging to a replacement group can be removed only if all licenses in this group have expired, since a replacement group can only be removed as a whole.
    • click the Display expired licenses button to display the expired licenses belonging to replacement groups also containing non-expired licenses.

    When the button remains grayed out, no licenses have expired.

  5. Click the Select columns... button to choose which columns to display in the tab.

    The Select Columns dialog box is displayed:

    The columns you can display are:

    Status
    The license status can be:
    • Active: the license has been enrolled and is valid
    • Expired: the license validity date has expired. The line appears in red.
    • Not yet available: the license has been enrolled, but its validity date has not yet been reached. The line appears in blue.
    • Invalid: replacement group has been partially enrolled. You have to remove it and re-enroll it properly. The line appears in red.
    • Superseded: the license is no longer available, because a replacement group with the same License ID and a higher Group Index has been enrolled. Expired and Not yet available status are not valued for Superseded licenses.
    Server
    Name of the license server.
    Editor
    The editor can be, for example:
    • Dassault Systemes
    • Dassault Systemes V5
    • Dassault Systemes V4.
    Model
    Licensing model with which the license complies:
    • NamedUser
    • ConcurrentUser
    • Token
    • Credit.
    Feature
    Feature name.
    Quantity
    Number of licenses enrolled.
    Start Date
    Date from which the license is valid.
    End Date
    Date after which the license is no longer valid.
    Duration
    License validity duration (in hours).
    Max Release Number
    Feature release level authorized by the license. Only licensing clients having a release level lower or equal to this number are allowed. The Max Release Number can be equal to 0. In this case, the license server does not perform any check related to release number: the license can be granted whatever the release level of the licensing client.
    Max Release Date
    Client release date authorized by the license. Only licensing clients having a release date lower or equal to this number are allowed.
    Max Usage Duration
    Displays one of two values:
    • the value is "0" for a full named user license
    • the value is "40" for a casual usage named user license. The value corresponds to the number of hours the license can be used by a given named user during a given month.
    Max Usage Period
    Displays one of two values:
    • the value is "0" for a full named user license
    • the value is "2" for a casual usage named user license.
    License Type
    Type of license enrolled on the license server, depending on how your license server is configured:
    • Floating (for standalone license servers)
    • Failover (for failover clusters).
    Commercial Type
    Commercial types are:
    • STD (for standard commercial licenses)
    • DEMO (for demonstration licenses)
    • EDU (for educational licenses).
    License ID
    This character string is the license identifier. A license ID can exist either for a single feature or a group of features.
    Group Index
    License replacement group index. For a given License ID, the highest number is active and the other numbers are superseded (if they have not been removed).
    File Index
    Number of a particular feature in the replacement group.
    File Quantity
    Number of individual features included in the replacement group.
    Computer ID
    Computer ID of the machine hosting the license server.
    Computer Name
    Name of the computer hosting the license server (when available).
    Customer Site
    License owner.
    Customer Country
    Country of license owner (3-letter international code).
    Customer ID
    License owner ID.
    Generation Date
    Date on which the license was generated.
    Generator
    Company which generated the license.
    Generator ID
    ID of the company which generated the license.
    Editor ID
    Editor ID.
    Enroll date
    License enrollment date.
    Pricing Structure

    The Pricing Structure defines the license (not the license key) duration and support conditions, specified in the license contract. Examples of pricing structures are:

    • PLC: Primary License Charge
    • TBL: Term-Based License charge
    • ALC: Annual License Charge
    • YLC: Yearly License Charge
    • QLC: Quarterly License Charge

    You may have different licenses with different pricing structures for different usages.

    Additional Info
    Optionally used for specific needs.

What are License Replacement Groups?

The Group Index column displays the license replacement group index.

A given license ID can exist either for a single feature or a group of features.

When you enroll the feature licenses for a given license ID and for the first time, the number in the Group Index column is set to "0", and the Status is Active. When your licensing needs evolve, you may need to replace an existing feature or group of features referenced by the same license ID. This is referred to as a license replacement group. When you enroll the new license replacement group for the same license ID:

  • the Status of the previous license changes to Superseded and is no longer displayed. If you wish to display superseded replacement groups, click on the Display superseded licenses button. To gain useful space, after a given period of validation, we recommend that you remove superseded licenses. This is automatically performed by license servers on a level higher than or equal to R2016x.
  • a new line containing the same license ID is added, the number in the Group Index column is incremented, and the status of the license is Active.