Bulk license orders let licensing helps you provide more convenience to end users who want to install your software on multiple machines. Instead of requiring separate activation keys for each HostID licenses will be locked to, bulk licensing lets end users use one a single activation key to lock their licenses (the licenses to multiple machines.Bulk licensing may be used for both local and network ) to multiple HostIDs. You create a bulk license order by specifying that multiple activations are allowed when creating/editing the license orderlicense orders. You can let end users activate bulk licenses on their own in any of the ways described in Activating software licenses.
To create a bulk license order:
- Follow the general instructions for creating the license order as given in Creating and managing license orders.
- In the Add License Order dialog, specify the number of activations in the Activations Allowed field of the Settings tab, as shown below. The following example shows that 10 activations are allowed for this license order.
- Click the License Orders button in When you have finished creating the license order, click Save to save the license order and return to the Licenses page.
- To see detailed information about the bulk license order, select the license order from the License Orders grid. The General Information area in the Licenses page shows the a count for Activations Allowed and Activations Remaining. The following example shows that 10 activations are allowed and 10 remain, indicating that no licenses have been activated yet.
After activating licenses, the Activations Allowed and Activations Remaining information changes is updated to indicate reflect how many licenses have been activated. In the following example, 4 of the 10 licenses have been activated, so we still have 6 licenses that can remain to be activated. Details The Licenses grid shows details for the activated licenses, including the HostID, the activation status (Successful or Failed), and the activation time are shown in the Licenses grid.
Each license under the bulk license order is identified by a unique combination of the activation key and HostID.
- To see general information about activated licenses for the bulk license order, return Return to the Licenses page and click the Activated Licenses tab. The Activated Licenses grid shows additional general information about activated licenses for the bulk license activationsorder, including the customer name, product name and version, and the template used for to create the license order.
