Licenses

Control Center's License Management enables users to get an overview over used and free licenses of the following types: Robot Licenses, Secure Session Licenses and Robot Module Licenses. Within Control Center's Robot management, users are able to grant and revoke these kind of licenses.

The left side of the Licenses view shows Control Center's sub menus with the current view marked as selected. The center view contains an overview of granted and free licenses. Each license type is shown in a separate view or stacking diagram.

License Pool

The licensing always requires a licensee owning licenses or license packages. License packages issued to a licensee may be imported by the System Administration web application. Imported licenses are stored within license pools. Licenses are granted on a per Customer basis, therefore all Customers (tenants) as well as the System context have their own license pools (System context's license pools are also named System license pool).

All licenses imported via license packages are initially stored within the System license pool and hence are system licenses. After the import, only System Users may transfer licenses to Customer license pools. After this transfer, users are able to grant licenses of their assigned Customer's license pool to entities (e.g. robots). This gradual licensing procedure guarantees a well defined distinction between Customer licenses and System licenses.

Licenses are cumulative - i.e. newly imported licenses are always added to existing licenses.

Users may only grant free licenses contained in their Customers' license pools. If the number of licenses contained in a license pool and the number of licenses already granted to an entity (e.g. a robot) differs, free licenses are still available. If the number of licenses contained in a license pool and licenses already granted is equal, no more free licenses are available. In the latter case, users may revoke licenses from entities or ask their System Users to transfer free licenses from the System license pool to their Customer license pools.

Multitenancy

Due to Control Center's multitenancy two license types exist: standard licenses and System licenses. Moreover, two kind of license pools exist: Customer license pools and a System license pool. Standard licenses are managed by standard users and System licenses are managed by System Users. Therefore logged-in standard users view licenses of their Customer license pools only; whereas System Users view licenses of the Customer currently specified by Customer Switch. Licenses contained in the System license pool are called System licenses and are shown in the [System] Customer context.

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The License Management supports the following operations: