Overview
Once you have chosen a licensing model, this section covers the day-to-day operations of running your licensing, including creating licenses for customers, keeping subscriptions current, and controlling access over each license's lifetime.
The license lifecycle
- Define your defaults with a license template. Every license inherits its configuration, such as type, activations, subscription interval, and security settings, from a template, so you set these values once.
- Create licenses for your customers through the admin portal or the Web API, typically as part of your order automation.
- Keep subscriptions current. For time-based licenses, configure the subscription interval and renew licenses on payment. See Subscription Licensing.
- Attach your own data to licenses, users, and activations with metadata, and track consumption with meter attributes for usage-based models.
- Control access when something changes. Temporarily block or permanently invalidate a license with suspension and revocation.
- Govern updates by linking a maintenance policy that defines how long, and for which versions, the customer receives software updates.
To find out when a license, an activation, or a user was last active, see Activity Timestamps.
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