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License Models with CodeMeter If you use CodeMeter or CodeMeterAct for a license management solution you will receive your own, unique Firm Code. With this Firm Code you can create a custom license container, known as a Firm Item. In this Firm Item you store your licenses in Product Items, identified by Product Codes. Each license can have several options, for example an Expiration Time or several counters. Here are some examples: Firm Code 100.002 Product Code: 1 Options 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 3 8 Single User License Create a Product Item with a freely selected Product Code. For your convenience, each license is automatically a single fl oating license on the network. By adding a License Quantity option with “0”, you will create a strict local license. Floating Network Licenses Store the maximum number of concurrently usable licenses as a License Quantity option into your Product Item. Then activate the computer with the attached CmStick as a CodeMeter License server: This server is already part of the CodeMeter Runtime Kit; just select the checkbox in the CodeMeter WebAdmin. With this adminis- trator tool you can also keep track of network licenses and how they are allocated. To access a license you can chose between different modes: UserLimit: Each instance of your software allocates exactly one license. StationShare: The application can be started by any number of instances on a single computer, allocating one license per client PC. NoUserLimit: The software can be started even after all possible licenses are already allocated. Overflow Licenses You want to provide your customers with more licenses than those actually purchased. Your goal is to upgrade the number of licenses in the future, after your customers learn the benefi ts of using your program. Here is an example with 100 purchased and 50 overfl ow licenses. You program 100 Licenses with Product Code 1 and 50 Licenses with Product Code 2 into a single CmStick. In Product Code 2 you also create a Unit Counter option with a very high number (for example 16 million). Now your software, will at fi rst, allocate licenses from Product Code 1. When this is successful, 4
KNOW-HOW your software is running in Normal Mode. If all 100 licenses are in use, the software tries to allocate Product Code 2 and it is now running in “Overfl ow Mode”. You can optionally ”cripple” your software artifi cially or display a message box “Please order more licenses!”; then reduce the Unit Counter one time per start or every running minute – just use your creativity to defi ne the Overfl ow Mode. Product Code = 1 License Qty = 100 Product Code = 2 License Qty = 50 Unit Counter = 16.000.000 And you do not have to give up the high security offered by AxProtector: Simply create the protection envelope for Product Code 1 and select the NoUserLimit mode. Leasing Licenes To limit the available time on a license, add an Expiration Time option. Here the CmStick has much higher security than CodeMeterAct because it can check the time against the pseudo real-time clock in the CmStick, which can also be further validated with a certifi ed time server. The same mechanism can also be used to create a time-limited demonstration version. It is easy to extend a license lease or a demonstration version automatically: Prepare a license online with Cm- Talk: You can activate the new license in your eCommerce solution, ready to be transferred to your customer. Then, via the Field Activation Service: You create, after receiving payment, an update fi le for your customer and add this to the next software update, may be done on a CD or by an Internet download. Licenses at the Terminal Server Do you want to avoid license violations at the terminal server? CodeMeter does this automatically for you: Each session will be tracked as a separate PC, including all modes. The same mechanism also prohibits license violations when in the multi user mode of Windows XP or Windows Vista. Limiting Licenses on Virtual PCs Comparable to the Expiration Time, the Code- Meter hardware has a much higher security on a virtual PC than a software-based license solution: Only one virtual machine can physically address the CmStick directly. All other virtual machines need to address their licenses via TCP/IP – if there are enough available for a multi-user solution. Licensing Different Program Modules Do you have different program modules which you want to control individually? No problem with CodeMeter: For each of these modules you assign a unique Product Code and you can handle more than 1000 different modules at the same time, each with individual license options like Expiration Time or Network License Control. Version Management Do you want your customers be able to use the current as well as preceding versions of your software; but not both at same time? For this scenario simply use the Feature Map: Each bit in the Feature Map represents for a specifi c version which can be individually activated or deactivated. With a Network Quantity of 1, the user can only start one of the activated versions at a time. And in a network environment, you 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 . . . 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Version 4 Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Binary Calculus 14 can use similar version management to control more than one license. Specially Attached Licenses Sometimes a software developer needs to bind a dongle to a PC, a machine or a specifi c user. In this case you could write a custom ID into the Protected Data option of the Product Item. Standby Licenses Is your solution mission critical? Then implement CodeMeter with a Cold-Standby or Hot-Standby “Emergency Dongle” providing your customer with an “always available” security solution: Hot-Standby Similar to “Overfl ow Licenses” a Product Item will be created with a high Unit Counter value. Unlike Overfl ow Licenses, the two different Product Items are created in two different CmSticks. The end user attaches the CmStick without Unit Counter to the standard license server. Then he or she attaches the CmStick with the Unit Counter to the backup license server. The server search list controls the order that license servers are searched, ensuring that the standard license server is found fi rst, and then the backup server. License Server Product Code = 1 License Qty = 100 Backup Server Product Code = 1 License Qty = 100 Unit Counter = 16.000.000 Cold-Standby You provide your customer with a second (Emergency) CmStick containing a Usage Period option of a couple of days. With fi rst usage, this period will begin the countdown: The license is available immediately and is locked automatically after expiration. License Server Product Code = 1 License Qty = 100 Backup CmStick Product Code = 1 License Qty = 100 Usage Period = 10 Days The license can be used temporarily but not permanently as a full second copy. Also the time of the Usage Period is checked by the pseudo real-time clock in the CmStick. The emergency CmStick can be replaced or converted as your business policies dictate. 5
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