How to upgrade a license from the QLM Management Console

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.

To upgrade a license

• 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.

To update a license

• 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.