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License Management

Assign Engineering Nodes within a License Group - Commercial Managers

  • From the Dashboard page select the license group
  • Go to the Engineering Nodes Tab
  • Select the button Assign for the license you want to use
  • If you need to use the license yourself select your account in the dropdown list and continue to the next step. Otherwise, select the user you want to assign the license to and press assign without filling out username and fingerprint, the assigned user should be able to do this from their own account now. In case the user did not exist before you can press the button Create User and fill out their information. After they have registered you should be able to assign the license to them in the same way.
  • Download the fingerprinter that matches your machine
  • Run it in the command line/terminal in order to receive your fingerprint
  • Fill in the license with your machine's username and the received fingerprint
  • A button with a link will be generated next to the license in order to download your client

Assign Engineering Nodes within a License Group - Commercial Users (Non Managers)

  • From the Dashboard page select the license group
  • Go to the Engineering Nodes Tab
  • After the manager has assigned the Engineering Node to your account the license should appear
  • Select the button Assign for the license you want to use
  • Download the fingerprinter that matches your machine
  • Run it in the command line/terminal in order to receive your fingerprint
  • Fill in the license with your machine's username and the received fingerprint
  • A button with a link will be generated next to the license in order to download your client

Assign SW/HW Testing Nodes within a License Group

  • In case of commercial accounts only managers are able to assign SW/HW Testing nodes.
  • From the Dashboard page select the license group
  • Go to the Engineering Nodes Tab
  • Select the button Assign for the license you want to use
  • Download the fingerprinter that matches your machine
  • Run it in the command line/terminal in order to receive your fingerprint
  • Fill in the license with the received fingerprint
  • The node has been activated and the SW/HW Testing machine has been enabled for any new solvers generated with an Engineering Node from the same license group

Transfer assigned licenses

  • From the Dashboard page select the license group
  • Go to the corresponding node Tab
  • Select the button Tranfer next to the license you want to transfer
  • The existing license will be mapped as transferred and a new unassigned one will appear
  • Please keep in mind that the number of transfers is limited to 10 times per node type in each license group per 6 months
  • Additionally, please keep in mind that since FORCES PRO clients are mapped to Engineering Nodes, when transferring and assigning a new Engineering node you need to redownload and reinstall the new FORCES PRO client generated from the new node.

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