Reactivating Licenses on Previous
Computers
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One particular scenario is the reactivation
of a license or a complete CmContainer on
what should be the same machine. The typical
case would be a clean install of the complete
system. You can define your own rules for this
scenario that operate independently from the
reactivation of individual licenses. These rules
also apply either generally, for defined periods,
or for manual instances only.
All licenses in the CmContainer created by
CodeMeter License Central are recovered. The
old CmContainer is automatically blacklisted.
When a license is created, a unique identifier,
the TicketLicenseId, and a generation counter
are stored in the license. This information
shows you if a single license is kept in multiple
copies on the same machine or in the same
network. How you respond to this is for you
to decide.
Updating Dedicated
CmContainers
Serial
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Serial
Recycling CmDongles
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In normal operations, you send your user a
ticket with which to activate the license in
a CmContainer of the user’s choice. You can
decide whether this should be a CmDongle or
a CmActLicense and whether the user is free
to make this choice.
Users might return their CmDongles to
the software vendor, e.g. when trials end.
CodeMeter License Central now allows you to
recycle such CmDongles, deleting the dongles
and removing any activated licenses from
current records.
There are certain scenarios in which you would
create licenses for a specific CmContainer. In
this case, you would set the serial number
of the CmContainer when creating the
license. The user now needs no ticket and
authenticates himself or herself with the
CmContainer.
Summary
The system also allows a hybrid approach
with tickets and licenses allocated to named
CmContainers. In that case, the allocated
licenses are retrieved automatically and in the
background when the ticket is checked in.
CodeMeter License Central 2.10 equips you
as the software developer with lots of new
automated features. You can decide whether
and which actions should take place in the
background when a license is reactivated.
The rules for such reactivations now also
include activations on the same computer.
You can distribute updates for CmDongles
via the push service or link licenses with a
specific CmContainer. The recycle function
allows you to reuse any dongles returned
from the field.
Push-Updating Licenses
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Licenses are usually delivered in a three-step
process: The client sends a request to
CodeMeter License Central. An update is
prepared for the user, and the procedure
ends with an optional receipt, which is
only required in the case of returns. Online
activations manage all of these steps in the
background without any actions required on
the part of the user.
For push updates, you select a CmDongle
that was programmed by CodeMeter License
Central and is now used by the client. You
produce the update and push it to the user – a
simple, one-step process.
As a software developer, you can always switch
between simple push updates, the standard
process with receipts, and current data.
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