Managing the Licenses

Using the ActivID Console Licenses page, you can view the status of licenses in your system and import new licenses if necessary.

Recommendation: Purchase as many licenses as the number of users who will be using the production system.

ActivID Appliance licensing enforces the control of the number of users per domain having at least one authenticator:

  • At authenticator creation, by checking the number of users having at least one authenticator against imported user licenses.
  • At software update, by checking the number of users having at least one authenticator against imported maintenance licenses.
Note: 25 trial User and Maintenance licenses are free. You can create up to 25 users with authenticators for testing purposes before buying a license. The 25 trial licenses will be added to the number of purchased licenses.

User licenses enforce the maximum number of registered users. A registered user is a user with at least one authentication record.

User licenses are additive so you can progressively buy more licenses to meet your deployment requirements.

The feature name for a User license is 4T-USER.

For User licenses, warnings are displayed in the ActivID Management Console and ActivID Console when the number of users with at least one authenticator reaches 90% of the User License user limit (that is, when fewer than 10% of the number of user licenses purchased are left).

There is a 20% tolerance when the number of users with at least one authenticator reaches the User License limit. After this threshold, authenticator creation is blocked (for user licenses) and software update is blocked (for maintenance licenses).

Maintenance licenses enable you to install software updates if the number of registered users corresponds to the number of valid maintenance licenses.

Maintenance licenses are exclusive so each license import overwrites the previous one.

The feature name for Maintenance license is 4T-MAINTENANCE.

For Maintenance licenses only, warnings are displayed when the license is about to expire (30 days before the expiry date).

For both User and Maintenance licenses, the number of registered users is the total number of users that have at least one authenticator (including system users), regardless of the domain.

To enforce user license, it is checked at each user authenticator creation. The following is a list of examples for authenticator creation:

  • User authenticator created for local database user using the API or the ActivID Management Console
  • User authenticator created for LDAP user using the API or the ActivID Management Console
  • LDAP fallback authentication as the authenticator is created automatically
  • AAA fallback authentication as the authenticator is created automatically

To enforce maintenance license, it is checked each time a hot fix/service pack is uploaded.

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