License Management

General Information about Licenses in ConSol CM

A ConSol CM license file is a text file which contains entries for several modules. For each module, the number of valid licenses is indicated. For example, the following excerpt of a license file shows the ConSol CM Web Client, CONCURRENT_USERS section. Ten licenses have been purchased.

ConSol CM works with concurrent users (sometimes also called floating licenses), i.e., the number of users who are logged in simultaneously is registered, no user names are checked. That means the number of engineers who are managed in the Admin Tool (see section Engineers) does not have to be identical to the number of Web Client licenses.

A license is consumed when the user logs in. The license is handed back to the server when the user session is terminated, i.e., when the user logs out or when the user session is terminated automatically by the server because the session timeout has been reached (see system property cmas-core-server, server.session.timeout).

Sections of a License File

A ConSol CM license file can contain the following sections. All licenses are concurrent licenses, see explanation above.

• [ADMINTOOL_USERS]
  The number of users who can log in to the CM Admin Tool.
• [CONCURRENT_USERS]
  The number of CM engineers who can log in to the Web Client
• [PROCESS_DESIGNER]
  The number of users who can log in to the CM Process Designer
• [TRACK]
  The number of customers who can log in to the portal CM/Track
• [TRACK_USERS]
  The number of user profiles for the portal CM/Track. This is the number of engineers who are marked as Track in the Engineers.
• [REST_USERS]
  The number of users who can access the REST API. The number of TRACK_USERS is not included in this number (CM/Track also uses the REST API.)
  CM/Phone will also consume REST licenses, one license per client (PC/laptop) where CM/Phone is installed and active.

Since several (or even a great number of) customers can use the same user profile in CM/Track, the license numbers of [TRACK] and [TRACK_USERS] might differ considerably. For example, there might be two user profiles and 1000 customers should be allowed to log in to CM/Track at the same time. This would mean 2 [TRACK_USERS] licenses and 1000 [TRACK] licenses. Please read section CM/Track: System Access for CM/Track Users (Customers) for a detailed explanation.