About renewal requests From the Renewal Dashboard, depending on your security privileges, you can create a request to renew selected items. During the request process you: Specify the renewal duration Select the quantity to renew. If you do not renew the entire quantity, then: You must specify the reason for not renewing For activated entitlements, […]
License Management
Disabling contracts
Poetic allows you to manually disable contracts. When a contract is disabled, the status of the contract is changed to inactive. All entitlements existing under that contract are also disabled. To disable a contact: On the Asset menu, click Contracts. The Search Contracts page displays. To display a list of contracts, specify contract search criteria, […]
Disabling entitlements
About disabling entitlements If you have the appropriate security privileges, Poetic allows you to manually disable entitlements. When you disable an entitlement, depending on how the application is configured, any linked entitlements may also be disabled. If any of the disabled entitlements have been activated, the activated items also are disabled. Selecting the entitlement to […]
Displaying historical keys
Types of historical keys Disabled keys When a user returns or rehosts activated items, the associated keys are disabled. These keys may be incremental or non-incremental. Replaced non-incremental keys If keys are not incremental, then when users add on to an existing machine, Poetic generates a new key for the entire quantity on the machine, […]
Viewing key details
Viewing activation details for a key On the Keys tab of the View Certificate page, the Options list for each key includes an option to view the activation details for that key. When you select the View Activation Details option, a set of tabs displays below the key, with the Activation Details tab selected. For […]
Displaying previous incremental keys
About incremental keys For incremental keys, when users add on to an existing machine, Poetic only generates a key for the quantity activated during that transaction. For example, a user activates: Date Quantity June 1 5 August 10 3 October 29 4 If the keys are incremental, then the certificate would include three different keys. […]