This glossary lists terms that are specific to License Activation Center (LAC).
| Term | Description | ||||||
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| HostID | A set of numbers unique to a particular machine. | ||||||
| Contact | A customer's contact person. | ||||||
| Customer | A company that orders licenses from a Vendor. | ||||||
| End user | A machine defined by a set of HostIDs, for example a personal computer, server, virtual machine, or any other equipment running licensed software. | ||||||
| Feature | Any functionality that needs to be licensed. The definition of feature is developer-dependent, according to the application and to the developer's requirements. For example, a feature can consist of:
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Floating license
| A license that can authorize usage of an application for users on a network. A license server is required to manage a floating license. With this type of license, the number of concurrent users is counted with the licensed application usable by only a specified number of users at any time. A variation of this scheme is a license that can be locked to work both with specific client computers and with a specified server computer. A floating license is sometimes referred to as a network license. | ||||||
| A unique machine value that can be used to lock a license file to a specific host. | ||||||
| License | A text file shipped to an end user, which provides one or more features | License | A text file produced using a license generator. A license file consists of blocks referred to as "features". Features contain information about specific modules in your program that are licensed. Each feature in a license has its own key, where all security information is encrypted. | ||||
License Order
| A set of information about the order of a product created by a Vendor for the End UserCustomer. | ||||||
Node-locked license
| A license that can authorize use of an application running on a single specific machine, as opposed to being on a network. Node-locked licenses do not require a license server because they are uncounted. A node-locked license is sometimes referred to as local license. | ||||||
| Vendor | The manufacturer of a software application using a particular license server.Customer | A company that orders licenses from a Vendor. | |||||
| Contact | A person responsible for contacting a Customer. | ||||||
| Vendor name | The name of the vendor that is used in license files | End User | A machine defined by a set of HostIDs, for example a personal computer, server, virtual machine, or any other equipment running licensed software. |