Automatic License Updates: Usership and Usability
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The document discusses automatic license updates, detailing how licenses can be synchronized between the cloud and local computers. It outlines various use cases including subscription models, license upgrades, and handling lost licenses. The process is designed to be user-friendly, operating transparently in the background and applicable to a wide range of licensing scenarios.
Automatic License Updates: Usership and Usability
- 1. Usability and Usership Ruediger Kuegler VP Sales & Professional Services Joerg Jans Professional Services Automatic License Updates 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 1
- 2. What are automatic license updates? 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 2
- 3. Automatic Synchronization between the Cloud and the Computer 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 3 CodeMeter CodeMeter License Central Ticket / Serial number Update
- 4. Use Cases 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 4
- 5. Use Cases ▪ Subscriptions, rental schemes, leasing models ▪ Licenses with maintenance contracts ▪ Customer purchases new features or requests an upgrade for an existing license ▪ Perpetual licenses that should expire in case of loss ▪ Service technicians, partners, sales, R&D, training, … ▪ Withdrawal of lost or refunded licenses ▪ Locking a lost CmContainer ▪ Customer doesn‘t pay on time 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 5
- 6. Updating Licenses in CodeMeter License Central 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 6
- 7. Assigning Licenses to a CmContainer 1 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 7
- 8. Assigning Licenses to a CmContainer 2 ▪ Licenses are bound to a CmContainer ▪ Collection also possible without ticket ▪ Action available as auto-update ▪ After returning the license, the binding is removed ▪ User Interface ▪ All the CmContainers that the customer has already activated ▪ All the CmContainers that you assigned to this customer explicitly ▪ Web service ▪ Any CmContainer 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 8
- 9. Withdrawing Licenses 1 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 9
- 10. Withdrawing Licenses 2 ▪ Removes a license from a CmContainer and a ticket ▪ License not activated ▪ License is immediately removed from the ticket (deleted) ▪ License already activated ▪ License will be deleted from the CmContainer at the next action ▪ Action available as auto-update ▪ After successful deletion (receipt) the license will be removed from the ticket ▪ User Interface ▪ To be found under “Order – Search” 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 10
- 11. Replacing Licenses 1 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 11
- 12. Replacing Licenses 2 ▪ An existing license is replaced with a new license ▪ Existing license not activated ▪ Existing license is immediately removed from the ticket ▪ New license can be activated in any CmContainer ▪ Existing license already activated ▪ Existing license is set to be withdrawn ▪ New license is bound to a CmContainer ▪ Action available as auto-update 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 12
- 13. Replacing Licenses 3 ▪ Possible actions, if activated ▪ Simultaneous activation of the new license and withdrawal of the existing license ▪ The existing license is returned and the binding of the new license is removed ▪ New activation (reactivation) of the new license in a new CmContainer, if the existing license is entitled to be reactivated 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 13
- 14. Black List 1 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 14
- 15. Black List 2 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 15
- 16. Black List 3 ▪ Behavior when reactivating a license ▪ No action ▪ Old CmContainer added to the black list ▪ License withdrawal ▪ An auto-update is optionally created to lock down all licenses in this CmContainer (Firm Item) 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 16
- 17. Recycling a CmContainer 1 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 17
- 18. Recycling a CmContainer 2 ▪ Deleting all licenses in a CmContainer (Firm Item) ▪ Removing (deleting) the affected licenses from their tickets ▪ Removing all links in the database to these CmContainers ▪ Use cases ▪ Restoring in case of error ▪ Resetting licenses in the event of a large scale migration to a new licensing concept ▪ Reusing a demo dongle for another user 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 18
- 19. Single-Ticket Approach 1 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 19
- 20. Single-Ticket Approach 2 ▪ All licenses are booked on a single ticket ▪ Assignment via original PO number ▪ Assignment via ticket ▪ The ticket is stored in the license ▪ The updates will be picked up using the ticket 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 20
- 21. Automatic License Updates Rollout 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 21
- 22. Software Activation Wizard with Ticket ▪ Uses “Single-Ticket Approach” ▪ First license is activated with a ticket ▪ Ticket is stored in the license ▪ Software Activation Wizard regularly checks whether there are new licenses in this ticket 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 22
- 23. Software Activation Wizard without Ticket ▪ Uses auto-update ▪ At creation, licenses are bound to the serial number of the CmContainer ▪ Software Activation Wizard regularly checks whether new licenses exist for this serial number 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 23
- 24. WebDepot with Ticket ▪ Uses “Single-Ticket Approach” ▪ Similar to Software Activation Wizard ▪ Login to WebDepot with ticket ▪ Configuration: 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 24 // "selected" = takes selected licenses only // "all" = takes all licenses define ("ACTIVATION_MODE", "all"); define ("DEACTIVATION_MODE", "all"); define ("REACTIVATION_MODE", "all");
- 25. WebDepot without Ticket ▪ Uses auto-update ▪ Similar to Software Activation Wizard 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 25
- 26. Transparent in Background (En Passant) ▪ Auto-updates are always executed in the background, before all other actions ▪ Possible triggers ▪ Use of the auto-update function ▪ Activation with the corresponding ticket (if known) ▪ Background activation for any other action involving the corresponding CmContainer 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 26
- 27. Summary 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 27
- 28. Summary ▪ With automatic updates, licenses can be distributed from the cloud to the local computer ▪ Cloud licensing that can also be used offline ▪ Transparent in the background for the user ▪ Applicable to all the following use cases ▪ Subscriptions, rental schemes, leasing models, maintenance contracts ▪ Changes (additional features, upgrades) to the current licenses ▪ Limited licenses for service technicians and partners ▪ Lost CmContainers and licenses 2019-10-09 © WIBU-SYSTEMS AG 2019 - Automatic License Updates: Usability and Usership 28
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