Managing licenses
Configure your license or apply a trial key.
Before you begin
Typically, you start with HCL™ Accelerate by installing the Community Edition (CE) or the Standard Edition (SE) Trial. Your edition is determined by the key that you enter during installation. As a reminder, the Current Application Edition field displays your current edition. If you want to continue to use the CE, no additional configuration is required.
To upgrade from the CE to the SE Trial, complete these steps:
- On the License Management page, click Request Trial Key. You will receive an email with your trial key.
- Click Enter Trial Key, and then enter your key.
After you activate the trial, you can use unlimited concurrent sessions and start using product support. A banner displays the number of days left in the trial. By the end of the 60-day trial, you must apply your license. If you do not acquire a license by the end of the trial, your installation is downgraded to the CE and you only have access to community support. All your data is saved, but your installation is restricted to two concurrent sessions.
About this task
Apply your license by connecting HCL™ Accelerate to a Flexnet Operations server.
- Configuration of the HCL Products and Platforms portal for software entitlements management via the FlexNet Operations license cloud server that interacts with HCL™ Accelerate.
- HCL™ Accelerate has direct internet access to the cloud server.
- Administrative role access to both the FlexNet Operations server and HCL™ Accelerate.
To complete license configuration, generate an RSA private key that HCL™ Accelerate can use to encrypt communication with the license server. Then, upload the related public key to the FlexNet Operations server. The FlexNet server uses the public key to decrypt requests sent from HCL™ Accelerate
To apply your SE license, complete the following steps:
Procedure
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Log on to the FlexNet Operations server with your configured password and retrieve the
License Server ID.
Ensure a configured device password is created by clicking Action and then selecting Set Password.
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Using your preferred method, create an RSA token public and private key pair for the
HCL™ Accelerate FLEXERA integration.
An example of creating an RSA token public and private key pair is the following:
- Generate an RSA private key by running the command:
openssl genrsa -out flexera-private.pem 2048
- Export an RSA public key by running the command:
openssl rsa -in flexera-private.pem -out flexera-public.der -outform DER -pubout
Note: The file extension for the public key uploaded to the FlexNet Operations / FLEXERA server must beDER
to ensure successful connectivity with the server.
- Generate an RSA private key by running the command:
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Authenticate your machine with FLEXERA.
Authentication is only performed once.
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On the
HCL™ Accelerate dashboard, click .
The License Server Connection pop-up is displayed.
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In the License server field, enter the server URL:
https://hclsoftware.compliance.flexnetoperations.com/api/1.0/instances/<LICENSE_SERVER_ID>
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In the Private Key field, copy and paste the entire contents of the
flexera-private.pem
file. - Click Save.