There are several uses cases where a customer license may need to be upgraded:
- Upgrade to a new version of your product
- Upgrade to new features of your product
- Upgrade of the expiry criteria associated to the license
Note that the Upgrade process creates a new Activation Key and archives the previous Activation Key.
As of QLM v10, it is recommended to Update a license rather than Upgrade a license. Updating a license allows you to edit a given license and updates its properties without generating a new Activation Key.
- Launch the QLM Management Console
- Go to the Manage Keys tab
- Locate the license to upgrade and select it
- Click the Upgrade button
- Select the Product, the features and the expiry criteria
- Click Ok. A new activation key will be created.
- Launch the QLM Management Console
- Go to the Manage Keys tab
- Locate the license to update and select it
- Click the Edit button
- To allow a customer to activate new versions of your product, enable the Maintenance Plan
- To enable/disable features, go to the Features tab and update the selected features
- To update the number of allowed activations, update Number Of licenses
- To update the number of floating seats, update the Floating Seats value.
- Click Ok
- To update the expiry date of a license, click Renew Subscription and set a new expiry date
- Click Ok. A new activation key will be created.
Once a license is upgraded or updated, the customer needs to reactivate the license.
When a license is updated, the LicenseValidator class can be configured to automatically connect to the License Server, detect server side changes and reactivate the license automatically without any user interaction.
When a license is upgraded, the customer must manually reactivate his license using the new Activation Key generated by the upgrade process.