Overview
Old licensing was originally introduced in 2013 and it's time for changes in order to simplify the rules for customers convenience. New licensing was introduced with License Statistics 6.0 and become the default licensing model for the application. According to the rules described below old licensing will be still supported in License Statistics 6.0 and above.
Trial
As of License Statistics 6.0 the application will start Trial with new licensing rules. All values displayed on License Details page in Administration will be calculated according to new licensing rules.
Old licensing termination
We are not planning to terminate support for old licensing for existing customers. All licenses will continue to work and it will be possible to extend the maintenance on regular rules, however:
- new customers are not able to buy the old license after License Statistics 6.0 was released
- until March 15, 2020 it will be possible to buy an add-on and extend the existing license using old licensing
- after March 15, 2020 it won't be possible to extend the license using old licensing and transition to new licensing will be required in order to extend the license
- due to technical limitations License Statistics 5.x is not going to support new licensing, so in order to extend the license after March 15, 2020 upgrade to License Statistics 6.x will be required
Old vs new licensing comparison
| Old licensing (2013) | New licensing (2019) |
|---|---|
| License upgrade possible only till March 15, 2020. | License upgrade possible without limitations. |
| Removing data (license servers or features) is not releasing the license limits. | Removing data (license servers or features) is releasing license limits. |
| Not available to new customers. | Available to all customers. |
| Number of actively monitored Realtime License Servers is limited by Realtime License Server license count. | One counter for all License Servers. |
| Number of Imported License Servers is limited by Imported License Server license count. | One counter for all License Servers. |
| Imported License Servers are calculated from last 3 month. | All License Servers are calculated. |
| Separate Realtime and Imported Users usage counting | One counter for all Users. |
| Denials are not counted towards licensing. | One counter for all Users (including Denials). |
| Realtime Users are calculated from last 14 days. | One counter for all Users (including Realtime Users). |
| Imported Users are calculated in entire history. | One counter for all Users (including Imported Users). |
| Username and User-Host license is supported. | Username license is supported. |
| Node-locked and Network license is supported. | Node-locked and Network license is supported. |
| Available for License Statistics 5.x and 6.x. | Available for License Statistics 6.x. |
Moving to new licensing
All customers has ability to move to new licensing. In order to do that please contact with X-Formation Sales department. Our representative will modify license configuration and new license will be delivered.
Activation Key for the license will remain the same, simple license re-activation will be required in order to move your License Statistics 6.0 to new licensing.
Due to simplified way of calculating license servers and users, new values needs to be set to the license. That's why our Sales representative will ask for the new values. Description of how to determine amount of users and license servers in new licensing is describe in "Determining new license usage" section below.
Determining new license usage
If License Statistics 5.x is used, upgrade to 6.x is required in order to determine new licensing requirements.
In License Statistics 6.x there is License Details page under Administration.
- If old licensing is used, you can see there separate sections for Realtime and Import licenses showing old license consumption. On the panel above you can see values which would be used if new licensing would be effective. Provide those numbers to our Sales department in order to receive new license.
- If new licensing is used, you can see single section showing new license consumption.