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Licensing Guide
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.
Licenses and Consumption details
User can check the licenses consumption details from HCL License Portal as well as from the Unica Platform licensing details page. Users can navigate to Settings > Licensing details page. Clicking on View License details page will show the license consumption count for all entitled products.

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.
- 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.
  - License Server Availability
    HCL Unica products need to be always connected to the HCL License Portal. You can choose to connect with the HCL License portal in multiple ways:
  - Licenses and Consumption details
    User can check the licenses consumption details from HCL License Portal as well as from the Unica Platform licensing details page. Users can navigate to Settings > Licensing details page. Clicking on View License details page will show the license consumption count for all entitled products.
  - Download Report
    When you click on the Download report button, an encrypted file with extension “.unica” is downloaded. This file cannot be viewed by the user, they need to send the encrypted file to HCL team for decription. During aduit, users are asked to shre this usage report.
  - Local License Server
    You might not be able to connect to cloud-based License server, in this scenario you can have two options as:
- 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.

Licenses and Consumption details

User can check the licenses consumption details from HCL License Portal as well as from the Unica Platform licensing details page. Users can navigate to Settings > Licensing details page. Clicking on View License details page will show the license consumption count for all entitled products.


Product Name	HCL Unica product name for which entitlement is allotted
License Type	Term/Perpetual
Start Date	Entitlement start date
Expiry Date	Entitlement expiry date (Not applicable for Perpetual license)
Entitlements available	Total number of entitlement allotted for a device or server.
Entitlements consumed	Number of entitlements consumed till now
Overdraft entitlements	Licensing model used, current model supports unlimited overdrafts. (Not applicable for Perpetual license)
Overdraft consumed	Different between entitlements available entitlements consumed. (Not applicable for Perpetual license)

Note: License details page will only show HCL Unica products active entitlements.

Usage Report

Clicking on the Usage Report tab opens a dialog box that provides detail information on per day entitlement consumption on the associated device. Enter a date range and click the Search button to view the usage report of the mentioned dates range. By default, the current date range is set to January,1st of current year to current date. The pop-up displays the list of Unica products you have opted for along with the entitlement consumption count for these products.

You can download the usage report by clicking the Download button. Report will be generated in PDf format.

Note: From V12.1 Fixpack3 onwards we can search and download usage report.

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