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Licensing Guide
License Models Supported with HCL Unica
HCL Unica products supports below license models.
Unica Link license details on consumption
Unica Link uses the license details configured in the Marketing Platform. Below entitlements are available for Unice Link (framework and connectors)

Licensing Guide
- Licensing Overview
- What User Needs To Do?
  HCL Unica customers will get a HCL License portal URL and login credentials via email. This portal will have the license entitlements allotted as per the purchase done by the customer. The customer needs to follow below mentioned steps to complete the registration process and configure the devices for HCL Unica products.
- HCL License Portal
  The license portal provides both Software distribution and management of your Software entitlements purchased from HCL Products and Platforms. The portal provides you with control and flexibility on how to consume your licenses. Typically, an organization will have someone identified as a License Manager that has familiarity with the language of Licenses, and you may wish to add them as a user. If not, you will find these instructions sufficient to begin using your HCL Software.
- Flexnet License Server
- License Models Supported with HCL Unica
  HCL Unica products supports below license models.
  - Term Based Licenses
    Term based licenses will be allocated to all new product licenses when you will install/upgrade Unica 12.1 products. Term duration can be anything. Unica support term based licenses with multiple options. Term based licenses come with effective and expiry dates. These term based license could also have restrictions on consumption. Please find below details on these options which are supported with Unica.
  - Perpetual Licenses
    If you are upgrading from earlier Unica version to 12.1 you could have the option to use the Perpetual license model for existing products, you are a license to use. The perpetual model does not have any duration associated with it and does not have any restrictions on consumption. Per year this license usage will get reset and Unica will start capturing the consumption fresh for next year. HCL will be billing the customers based on the consumption of products in the Perpetual license model.
  - License Check on Unica Launch
    When you launch Unica application after upgrade or clean install of 12.1 version it checks for the license validity. When Unica application launches for the first time it will prompt you for the license. You will need to provide license details. Unica does not need to have licenses configured on the non-production environments. License device associated with any production environment should have the Unica Marketing Platform entitlements associated with it. You will not be able to access/launch applications if your device does not contain entitlements for that respective product.
  - Term license flow
    If any of product in entitlement is Term based license model, it will get elapsed in the following scenarios:
  - Perpetual license flow
    Perpetual licenses do not have any restrictions and expiry date. Perpetual licenses supported with Unica are “Overdraft” with no constraints. Perpetual licenses consumption will be reset every year. Unica will continue updating the entitlements count after reset as per the usage.
  - Alerts and Notifications
    Unica will be sending alerts and notifications on different events or triggers on the license usage. Notifications & alerts will be sent to users with role Admin Role (HCL Marketing Platform) and the System alerts (under Notification Subscription for Unica Platform ) are turned on for the user.
  - Usage Management for Unica Products
    Unica provides term and perpetual licenses categorized under UPP (Unica Power Pack) and a la carte parts. The license comes with one year validity.
  - Unica Platform license
    Unica Marketing Platform entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Campaign License
    Unica Campaign entitlements consumption is calculated using below methods:
  - Unica Interact License
    Unica Interact entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Deliver License
    Unica Deliver entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Journey License
    Unica Journey entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Link license details on consumption
    Unica Link uses the license details configured in the Marketing Platform. Below entitlements are available for Unice Link (framework and connectors)
- License Configuration
  User will need to configure the license with HCL Unica products before start using, when users access the Unica Platform login URL – it will get redirected to the license configuration page. The user needs to configure the license details on this page. Unica Platform will validate the license and on a successful license, the configuration user will be redirected to the Unica Marketing Platform login screen. There are two radio buttons on the License configuration screen Flexnet and Platform. Flexnet button will connect to Flexnet to consume the license and Platform option is for Master slave configuration. Slave platform will consume the license from the Master platform, so for slave platform user needs to click on the Platform radio button and enter the master platform url and credentials. Once this is done, slave platform will start consuming license from the Master platform, which in turn will consume license from Flexnet.
- Logging for Licensing
  Detail logging for license server connection, updates, expiry, etc. is logged in Unica Platform log file present under <PLATFORM_HOME>/logs/platform.log. Users will get warning, error, and info type messages related to licensing.

Unica Link license details on consumption

Unica Link uses the license details configured in the Marketing Platform. Below entitlements are available for Unice Link (framework and connectors)

Link Framework
HCL_LINK_Mailchimp
HCL_LINK_Mandrill
HCL_LINK_Twilio
HCL_LINK_Salesforce
HCL_LINK_Facebook_Ads
HCL_LINK_Google_Ads
HCL_LINK_LinkedIn_Ads

You can add the required license entitlements as per requirement. In Campaign or Journey user can use the connections without any license validations. If you do not have a valid entitlement for Unica Link then you would not be able to run Campaign flowchart or Journeys which are using these connectors.

Every regular interval - Unica Platform updates the connection usage in the licensing portal. If you are not using any connector license consumption count is 0 (zero) and once you start using the connection in Unica Campaign or Journey it changes from 0 (zero) to a positive number.

Unica Link licenses are counted either as used or unused. 0 (zero) indicates it is unused and any positive number indicates it is being used. Unica Link consumption is not metered based on the number of connections.

While applying the entitlements also Unica Link does not consider the number of entitlements so the initial count is displayed as 0 (zero) only.

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