Overview

Cloud licensing is a new licensing system being used by CSI to simplify the licensing process for our users. The main differences compared with previous licensing systems used by CSI Products are:

• All licenses function as network licenses, instead of being standalone or network. This means when the software is started it will obtain a license if available and upon closing the software it will return the license, making it available to others.
• There is no license server to be installed by the end user. The license server is hosted in the cloud by CSI.
• It is currently necessary to have an internet connection when running the software to allow it to obtain and return the license.

Supported Products

The following products currently use cloud licensing:

• CSiPlant v5

License Activation Key

Each cloud license activation key is associated with a certain number of users (or seats), as determined at the time of purchase. When the number of users running the software with a given activation key reaches that limit, no additional instances of the software can be used until one of the current instances is closed. If this limit is reached frequently it may be useful to purchase additional license seats of the software.

License Activation

Upon expiration of any evaluation licenses, CSiPlant will ask to activate a license. Input the Activation Key that was provided when the product was purchased. Upon successful activation it should not be necessary to do this again unless the license is deactivated.

License Deactivation

A license can be deactivated using the Help > License Information command and checking the Deactivate License checkbox, followed by the OK button. Once a license is deactivated from a client machine the software will not be able to be used until a license is activated again.