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opsi manual opsi version 4.0.2
14 opsi License Management
14.1 Conditions for using the opsi License Management extension
This opsi extension is currently in the co-funding process and is not free. For more details see Section 6.
14.2 Overview
14.2.1 Main features
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The opsi license management module is designed for managing the software licenses for proprietary software installed
on opsi clients.
The main features are:
• Providing the license management functions from within the opsi-configed management interface.
• Automated supplying, assignment, and reservation of license keys.
• The following different types of licenses can be managed:
– standard single licenses (a single license key assigned to a single license),
– volume licenses (a single license key for a certain number of installations) or campus licenses (a single license key
for an unlimited number of installations)
– client bound licenses (which is a single license valid for a dedicated client only, e.g. OEM licenses),
– concurrent licenses (managed by a license server)
• License keys are released when deinstalling software.
• Licenses can be manually edited, including licenses that were not installed using opsi.
• Reporting functions that use the software inventory to gather data on licenses installed by opsi and non-opsi
software, and then match the opsi and non-opsi data.
14.2.2 Invoking the license management from the opsi-configed
A separate window in the opsi-configed management GUI is used for the license management.
It is available by pressing the button "licenses" at the top right corner of the opsi-configed management GUI. If the
license management module is disabled, # then a note will be displayed.(see the entry for "license management" in
the main menu under /Help/Modules).
Figure 59: opsi-configed: Menu bar with the button "licenses" (rightmost)
The opsi license management module is a co-financed opsi extension module, which is available to the participants of
the cofunding project, who have payed a certain amount of the development costs. The module will be available to
the community when all the development costs have been recuperated.