+ Paul – resident UBL expert

 

Great notes Don. Just a quick follow up from my end.

 

• User-based licensing (UBL) is a simplified license approach. Provisioning of UBL can be done automatically and can even be done using an Arm license server so you would not need to maintain your own.
• We are providing you with a few trial licenses to test this out.
• The activation codes are:
• 8f6c5a91-8666-4c59-bc5f-46958599b4a0
• 87b1efe0-d854-4fbc-b9f1-d0f2b6bcf865
• 00bb276a-b55c-448d-ba02-e4ef6349630e
• ba0d039d-5f7a-4579-a61d-d8d039689189
• 8a7181f6-4c50-43d8-b9b9-27a5686497c4
• You can install them alongside your current floating licenses.  We are happy to help you with the trial.
• A simple command line action will put the tools in UBL mode. If that fails for whatever reason, the tools will fall back to floating license mode.
• In other words, you can test the functionality without replacing the licenses you currently have.
• You can easily run a report to show which model invocations are using UBL versus which have fallen back to floating. Once you are comfortable that UBL is working seamlessly, you can get rid of the floating licenses.
• UBL licenses are provisioned to a user for a fixed lease period of 7 days. Each day the tools will look to refresh the 7 day period by checking with the license server. If the tools cannot reach the license server, they will continue to run up until the 7-day limit.
• There’s not an easy way to change this lease period but we could modify on our end if there is an obvious benefit.
• Each of your compute farms, e.g. TFM, TFA, Lava could work with a single UBL license if they have the same log-in name.  
• We have a GUI web interface that helps you monitor where the entitlements are currently held.

 

Regards,

Dan