Network License Properties
Properties
On admin PC or server, open the License Server Dashboard. Switch to License Table tab, and you can see your purchased License Table on the right panel:
Application Name
Name of the app.
Number of licenses.
Maximum number of PCs (or users, if the network license is set per user) allowed to use the license simultaneously. It is number of PCs, not number of app windows in PCs.
You can open as many windows of an app in your PC as you want, all requires only 1 network license for 1 app.
If the network license is set per user, one user can sign in many PCs under the same user name. Then, he can use the app with just 1 network license slot in those PCs.
Version
Version number of the app. Version number changes in future release of the app, but the license will be still available, unless noted otherwise by the Vendor.
Server Down Allowance (days)
Once activated, the network license is saved to your PC. So if there is trouble in connection to server, the app still run as licensed app, as long as the disconnected time doesn't exceed a specific time span. That time span is this Server Down Allowance, specified in number of days.
This property is determined in the License Agreement.
Max Hrs Each Use
Due to the nature of an app, some has usage time very short. If the app checks in the Licens Server, get the license, it only releases that license once it is closed.
If you forget to close the app, and there is no license left in License Server, other PCs cannot run the app, and have to wait.
So the Vendor maybe want to speed up this circle a bit, and set this Max Hours Each Use to a number of hours. Once Max Hours Each Use is set, the license will automatically be released itself (Check-out) after the specific time.
If Max Hrs Each Use is not set, the License Table will show it as Any.
This property is determined in the License Agreement.
Min Hrs Each Use
Contrary to the "Max Hour Each Use" purpose, sometime the Vendor wants to limit the "Check-in Check-out" circle of a network license.
Once Min Hrs Each Use is set, even if the app is closed, and/or user PC is turned off, this network license is not released.
It can be released only if time has passed a specific number of hours from check in time.
Example
JTB Sheet Set Creator license has Min Hrs Each Use = 3 hrs. James open the app in his PC at 8 am. In License Server Dashboard, it shows that there is 0/1 license(s) left.
After using, James close AutoCAD, hence, release the network license of JTB SheetSetCreator at 9 am.
Janet opens the app in her PC at 9.30 am, but cannot acquire the network license. The status in Janet activation window will say: "Licenses are locked for a period of time". This is because Min Hrs Each Use = 3 hrs, hence, only until 8 + 3 = 11 am, this network license can be unlocked.
If Min Hrs Each Use is not set, the License Table will show it as Any.
This property is determined in the License Agreement.
Activate App Using A Network License
Check-in
Open your purchased JTB World app in user's PC. At first run, you have to setup the network license first. Then in next runs, the app will automatically manage to check in License Server to get its network license.
Click "Activate" button in the app window. Otherwise, see Help file of the app to find out where the button is.
If the app is a CAD add-in, you can run JTBW_Activate_Apps command on the command line.
Following activation form windows will show up:
Switch to Network License tab, then, enter the Server Name or Server IP Address. Port Number is automatically detected.
Then click "Send Request" to check-in into the License Server. You might have to click this "Send Request" twice if the responding of the License Server is slow.
If there is a network license available for the app, you will get License Status: "Network license received".
If connection failed, or there is no network license for this app, or all network licenses are in used, then, you will get one of these messages:
- "No license found on server."
- "No license. Server does not respond."
- "All licenses on server are in use."
- "Licenses are locked for a period of time."
- "Temporarily using old license. Server does not respond."
Close the app
After closing the app, it will send message to License Server in your server machine to Check-out. Then, currently network licenses used by the app are returned, or unlocked directly or after a set time in the license file.
In the dashboard, you can see the app is not on the list any more. In the column "License(s) left", number of license(s) for app increase 1.
But if there is error in the connection, License Server doesn't receive Check-out message. Then, the network license still in used, or locked. In this case, you can see in the dashboard, the app's associated row is grey out.
This grey-out network license will only be unlocked (hence, available to use by other PCs) if:
- 1. the app is open again in the disconnected PC, and
- 2. the app is closed properly, hence, check-out message is sent and received properly
- OR
- after a period of time (Vendor specified), the License Server will unlock it automatically. This function is designed in case the PC is removed from the network or for apps normally running short times.