Set up on-premise licensing

Once you have purchased your licenses and installed the Tricentis License Server, you need to set up licensing for your company before you can start testing.

To do so, follow the steps below: 

  1. Get the Activation ID of the licenses you want to activate from the Tricentis Support Hub.

  2. Activate your licenses on your license server:

  3. Connect to the license server.

If you have activated your licenses on a local machine, i.e. registered node-locked licenses, do not connect to the server.

In this case, you need to use the licenses on your local machine as described in chapter "Permanently bind licenses to a specific user".

Once you have performed these steps, you can open Tosca Commander and start testing.

For information on how to set up HTTPS with an on-premise license server, see this Tricentis Knowledge Base article.

Work with on-premise licenses

Once you have set up licensing for your company, you can perform the following actions:

Track license usage and create license usage reports

Tricentis License Usage Tracking collects license usage statistics and Tricentis License Usage Reporting enables you to create license usage reports with the data retrieved. This allows you to quickly react to possible bottlenecks or under-consumption.

For information on how to work with Tricentis License Usage Tracking and Tricentis License Usage Reporting, see chapter "Track license usage".

Checkout licenses

If you want to reserve a specific license for a particular user for a limited time, you can checkout this license on the user's machine. As long as you have checked out a license, no other host ID can use it. This includes Admin users.

You can checkout licenses for a maximum of 30 days.

For information on how to checkout licenses, see chapter "Checkout licenses".

View available licenses

You can view a list of all available license packages. This list includes the following information:

  • included features

  • number of licenses

  • validity dates of your licenses

For information on how to view available licenses, see chapter "View available licenses".

Manage licenses

Tosca License Administration is a web-based application that allows you to monitor and manage one or more self-hosted license servers. It helps you to determine the following:

  • how many licenses are in use

  • how many licenses are available

  • which users are using which packages and features

For information on how to work with Tosca License Administration, see chapter "Manage on-premise licenses".

Switch between license types

If you have access to several license types, for example if you have an on-premise license server and a Cloud solution, you can switch between license types.

For information on how to do so, see chapter "Switch between license types".

Deactivate licenses

If you have activated licenses by mistake or would like to re-allocate them to another device, you can deactivate them on the current device.

For information on how to do so, see chapter "Deactivate licenses".

Return idle licenses

If a user is running Tosca Commander, but not actively using it, the user's license is still blocked. To free up idle licenses, you can change your Options so that Tosca Commander returns idle licenses automatically.

For information on how to return idle licenses, see chapter "Return idle licenses".