Concurrent User (license type)

A license that allows a large number of users to access the software, but limits how many of them may use it simultaneously. Since inventory tools do not monitor concurrent user numbers, this license type is excluded from compliance calculations. Set compliance manually on licenses of this type.

This kind of license is typical of high-end engineering applications. The licensing for these applications is managed in FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. Because this licensing is managed from FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, the special Concurrent User licenses for these applications are unlike other license types in IT Asset Management, in the following ways:

• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Concurrent User licenses can be manually created in IT Asset Management
• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Concurrent User licenses are not subject to extended use rights, such as having upgrades and downgrades applied automatically
• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Concurrent User licenses are not linked to application records or computer records within IT Asset Management
• It is not possible to manually allocate (or remove) users to (or from) these licenses from within IT Asset Management
• Compliance for these licenses is calculated by FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, and not by the inventory import process within IT Asset Management.

IT Asset Management provides a central license server and manages usage of the engineering applications owned by your enterprise.

Product use rights

Upgrade rights, downgrade rights. (Not applicable for licenses relating to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.)

Group assignment

Group assignment is supported.

Scoping to groups

Not available.

Consumption

The number of unique computers that have installations of one or more of the applications linked to the license.

When the Concurrent User license is created automatically while importing data from FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, this number is directly imported rather than locally calculated.

Included

Computers within the scope of the license.

(Not applicable for licenses created automatically while importing data from FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.)

Compliance

Not calculated. For locally-created Concurrent User licenses, you may manually assign the status Compliant on the license properties.

Concurrent User licenses created automatically for engineering applications have their compliance status calculated by FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.

Changing from

Allocations to computers may be deleted.

Scoping rules will be deleted.

Changing to

You may want to allocate the license to computers. (Not applicable for licenses relating to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.)