CAL Legacy (license type)

A Client Access License (CAL) is a software license that entitles a client to access the services of some server products like Microsoft Exchange or IBM Rational Quality Manager. A CAL typically provides the access rights to physical, virtual, and (sometimes) online services. For example, A Windows Server requires CALs for the users accessing its services. Select this license type when you want to manage the CAL consumption by manually entering a number, and not through FlexNet Manager Suite.

Product use rights

Downgrade rights, upgrade rights, and a specific right for each user to access multiple installations.

Group assignment

Not available.

Consumption

Any client access requests from a user or device to a server application consumes CAL when the server does not have a processor-based license for that application.

Scoping to groups

Not available.

Consumption

A CAL can be consumed on per user or per device basis. You can procure CALs individually or as CAL suites.

Included

When you want to manually manage the CAL consumption. For users, use Microsoft User CALs and for Devices, use Microsoft Device CAL.

Compliance

Compliant when the number of users or device accessing the server application is less than or equal to the number of user or device CAL entitlements purchased.

Changing from

Any existing allocations to devices or users may be deleted.

Scoping rules may be deleted.

Compliance rules for the new license type may be different. It is recommended to run a reconcile after changing the license type.

Changing to

Any existing allocations to devices or users may be deleted.

Scoping rules may be deleted.

Compliance rules for the new license type may be different. It is recommended to run a reconcile after changing the license type.