Ahsay License Management Portal Overview

This Know-How article contains an overview of the Ahsay License Management Portal.

The main purpose of the Ahsay License Management Portal is for partners to:

• Consolidate purchased AhsayCBS licenses into License Pool(s).
• Flexibly generate and update AhsayCBS license(s) as requirement change.
• Improve efficiency on use of AhsayCBS license(s) by sharing CALs (Client Access License) in license pool among multiple AhsayCBS instances.

With the License Management Portal, partners can place purchased AhsayCBS licenses (Poolable License) into a pool to be shared among multiple AhsayCBS instances. This process is called converting Poolable License into Pooled License.

These Pooled License(s) will then be placed into two main categories, 'OEM' and 'Standard', where:

• The total number of CALs available for 'OEM' type is the cumulative total of all 'OEM' license(s) converted into Pooled License.
• The total number of CALs available for 'Standard' type is the cumulative total of all 'Standard' license(s) converted into Pooled License.

After creating a License Pool, Pool Key(s) can be generated  to share CALs designated for the corresponding License Pool. These newly created Pool Keys can be applied to the AhsayCBS server afterward.

As all Pool Key(s) share the same 'Free Upgrade Until' date inherited from the account Pooled License, you need to ensure that the Poolable License to be converted has not expired. Failure to do so will result in all Pool Key(s) of the same license type to expire. The generated Pool Key(s) will continue to work with valid maintenance. In addition, you will not be able to login to the License Manage Portal if ANY of your Pooled License(s) 'Free Upgrade Until' date has expired.

With the ability to consolidate purchased license, and create License Pool according to your need, user can easily generate the Pool Key for specific requirement as needed and flexibly modify the key's quota as the requirement change.

CASE STUDY

ServiceProviderCompany is a backup service provider offering backup solution to multiple companies across the world. For each company supported by ServiceProviderCompany, AhsayCBS server(s) will be deployed as on-site backup server. The server(s)' Client Access License (CALs) can be dynamically changed upon requirement change.

ServiceProviderCompany has acquired 3 new partners:

NewCompany1 has 2 local offices, with each office hosting its own AhsayCBS server. They have requested 2 licenses with 10 AhsayOBM and 10 AhsayACB each.

NewCompany2 and NewCompany3 have both requested for a single license with 20 AhsayOBM and 20 AhsayACB each.

ServiceProviderCompany currently have 100 AhsayACB and 100 AhsayOBM in stock (a 'not-in-use' OEM license 'Ahsay-CSV-OEM').

In the past, to generate the requested AhsayCBS keys, ServiceProviderCompany will have to contact Ahsay's representatives to split the stock license into new key(s) to meet their customer's ever-changing requirement. However, with the new License Management Portal, ServiceProviderCompany can simply allocate all stock license(s) (or even 'in-use' license) into a single or multiple License Pool(s), where they can then generate the required AhsayCBS licenses (Pool Key).

To begin, administrator of ServiceProviderCompany can access the Ahsay License Management Portal through the Partner Portal.

Poolable Licenses are the current purchased AhsayCBS licenses under the ServiceProviderCompany account.

First, convert the stock license (Poolable License) into a Pooled License. After the conversion, the Pooled License can no longer be applied to any AhsayCBS server. However, in this case, the original license was not used on any AhsayCBS server, so there is no further action required.

With the license converted, License Pool can be created. For better organization and manageability in the future, 3 License Pools will be created for the three new partners (e.g. NewCompany1-Pool, NewCompany2-Pool and NewCompany3-Pool).

When creating a License Pool, the term 'Pool Quota' refers to the maximum number of CALs available to the particular License Pool created. Assign the corresponding 'Pool Quota' to the respective License Pool, in this case:

Next, create the Pool Keys for the 3 new partners in their respective License Pool. When creating a Pool Key, the term 'Key Quota' refers to the maximum number of CALs available to the Pool Key to be generated. Assign the corresponding 'Key Quota' to the respective Pool Key, in this case:

These keys can then be applied directly to the respective AhsayCBS server. For further details to perform each step, please refer to the How To section.