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license management database. When entering a new license contract, a new unique ID is constructed based on the
current date and time stamp. This ID can be changed before saving the new data set. When saving the data, the opsi
service checks whether the ID is unique. In case it is not, a new ID is generated and cannot be changed any more.
14.4.3 Configuring the license model
The third part of the Tab "New license" is named "Configure license" and is for registering the license model and license
data.
Several types of license models are available:
• Standard license
• Volume license
• OEM license
• Concurrent license
Each Option is represented by a button. Clicking a button, the form is filled with data for that type of license model.
The license model Standard license means, that this license is valid for a single installation on an arbitrary client.
So the license key (if any) is valid for a single installation only.
A Volume license is valid for a certain number n of installations. In this case the optional license key is used for that
number of installations. Setting n = 0 means, that the number of installations is unlimited within the same network
(campus license).
In case of an OEM license, the license is valid for a dedicated client only. Clients that come with a vendor pre
installed operating system often have this type of license for the pre installed OS and software packets.
The Concurrent license means that a certain number of licenses is available for a variable set of clients. Within
opsi this situation is handled like an unlimited Volume license. The number of actual installations in use has to be
managed by some external license server.
After clicking a button, the automatic generated data include a generated unique ID (derived from date and time
stamp). This ID can be changed as desired.
It depends on the type of license model, which of the other fields can or cannot be changed.
The field "Expiration date" defines the expiration date of the license in a technical sense. (This column of the license
is for future use).
14.4.4 Saving the data
The "Send" button sends the data to the opsi service to save them permanently to the opsi data base (if they are
consistent and no errors occur).
While proceeding this, data records will be generated for the new software license based on the selected software
contract and the new license option assigned to that.
The list of available license options at the bottom of the window will be refreshed with the new license option selected.
If necessary, the license key can be changed then.
14.5 Editing licenses
For ninety percent of the use cases editing the license data with the tabs "License pools" and "New license" will do.
But there might be some special cases affording to edit license data more specific and explicit. Therefore the tab "Edit
licenses" presents the license data in three tables, representing the internal data structure and allowing to adapt the
data for some special cases.