Upgrade The upgrade license type has been introduced to resolve all problems you may encounter using additive licenses and is meant to replace them. Upgrade license type applies only to network licenses. Unlike the additive license, the upgrade license does not create a new license pool next to exclusive license. Instead it upgrades , which applies only to network licenses, resolves issues associated with and is intended to replace additive licenses. Rather than creating a new license pool alongside an exclusive license as additive licenses do, upgrade licenses increase the exclusive license count by a particular number of licenses, simutanously while simultaneously being completely transparent to the client. This approach allows for more flexibility in handling license addonsadd-ons.
Just like any other license, the The upgrade license lifetime may be limited by using START and END directives in the same way as for other license types. The license server automatically handles activates or deactivates upgrade licenses by activating or deactivating them at midnight. However ; however, it is possible to create an upgrade license that will last for everdoes not expire.
It is possible to upgrade You can upgrade a particular exclusive license as many times as necessary, as long as COUNT is within its range. It will sum up all of the license upgrades, allowing for a different expiration date for each upgrade.
There are restrictions on applying an upgrade license to an exclusive license. The upgrade license's lifespan must be within the exclusive license's lifespan, and neither the upgrade nor exclusive license can be unlimited.
Upgrade An upgrade license may can be locked to the license server HostIDs preventing from to prevent using the same upgrade license on more than one machine. Duplicated instances of an upgrade license within one license server will be discarded.There are restrictions on whether the upgrade license may be applied to the exclusive one. First of all, its lifespan must be within exclusive license's lifespan. Besides that, neither upgrade nor exclusive license can be unlimited.
Client HostIDs are not supported with for upgrade licenses. , and LMX_GetLicenseInfo will not report any upgrade licenses in both network and or local paths. These are consequences of the design assumption that the limitations exist because the upgrade licenses are designed to be transparent to the client. However exclusive license reports now its , exclusive licenses report their upgrade license count in both LMX_GetFeatureInfo and LMX_GetLicenseInfo.
License template
To maintain maximum compatibility with the corresponding exclusive license, the settings allowed in the upgrade license template allows for strictly selected set of settingsare limited. All of them the settings behave the same as for exclusive licenses, except for that SHARE which is limited to VIRTUAL only.
Some settings, like feature name, COUNT and KEYTYPE, are required by the license generator to create an upgrade license. Other Optional settings that may be used with upgrade licenses are START, END, SHARE, HOSTID_MATCH_RATE and server hostidsHostIDs.
Example
Following The following license template would results result in an upgrade license that would increase increases the feature "f1" license count by 1 andbeing one, and is valid from the license server startup to 2030-01-01.
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