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Network License Properties


1. How it works - Quick screenshot video

Above video highlights 4 common actions on the Dashboard:

1. Establish connection between dashboard to server.

2. Import license file: after purchase of network licenses, send the server ID to JTB World and then use the license file emailed back. Then import the license file to your License Server. Repeat these steps if you make a new purchase with a new license file.

3. Users PCs check in.

Note: It you close the app running in your PC, it will check out automatically and release the license. It may first be available for others after a specific time.

4. Manually reset selected PC: send command to force selected PC to return all network licenses, without going to PC and close the apps.

Note: You don't have to run Dashboard all the time. Once connections are setup, you can close Dashboard.



2. Connect Tab

There are 2 connections:

1. Connection between Dashboard and License Server.

2. Connection between License Server and Apps in Users PCs (or Users PCs in short).

You can always see the status of connection in the connection diagram on the right. If the icon greys out, it means it is disconnected.

The Port Number by default is set to 50 (actually, it is port number 56750. "567" is a constant prefix). That is usually a free port in Window. If it is not, you can choose other port number from 56701 to 56750.

The console Log Window is useful for checking the License Server Service. Here, you can see when a PC connects, disconnects, when an app check-in and check-out. All log info is recorded to csv files in a subfolder of server machine's Public Document. You can click "Open Logs Folder" to open the folder.



3. License Table Tab

"This Server ID" is concatenation of the server name and its hard disk serial number. Send "This Server ID" to JTB World, so JTB World can generate License File for your License Server.

(you can click to the hyperlink info@jtbworld.com to start an email.)

Open license file (file extension is ".lic"). Click "Import" to add license file to License Server. If you already have 3 JTB Steel licenses, and you purchase 3 more, it will show 6 licenses in JTB Steel row.

The "Restart License Server - Reinitialize License Table.lic" button

This helps temporarily turn off and then turn on again the License Server. Before turning off, all connected PCs will be requested to return their network licenses. After turning off, the unsaved changed (if any, after importing License File) in the License Table will be discarded.

Upon turning on (restart), all connected PCs will one by one get the network licenses delivered.

If you have trouble of getting network license because some app in a PC is frozen, doesn't return the network license properly, this "Restart" button might fix the issue. More complicated cases of locked network licenses can happen due to the MinHoursEachUse property, disconnected PCs etc.

See more about network license properties in Network License Properties.


4. Dashboard Tab

First thing on the Dashboard, it is the Server Name. On user's PC, when activate an app via network license, this is the name you should type in into Server Name textbox of Activation Window.

Each user's PC shows up on the Dashboard with its unique Computer Name. From each PC, each app shows up on the Dashboard with a unique Window ID.

Recommended view format is "Contract View", which you can see apps grouped under PC Name.

Lower part of the dashboard has 2 tabs: the Log window and the list of rejected requests.

+ Log window is similar to Log window in Connect Tab.

+ When an app sends request but there is no license, or no license left, that action will be listed in Reject Requests tab.

The "Reset selected PCs" button

Send requests to selected PCs to return all network licenses. This helps when you have another PC that needed a license in priority.

See more about how a network license is activated, check-in and check-out at Network License Properties - Activate an app.