Viewing the licences available on a licence server

You use the Totals tab of the Asta Licence Manager to view details of the number of licences that:

Are available - or active - for each Elecosoft product on a licence server.
Have been loaned from a licence server to other computers.
Are temporarily available on a licence server. Temporary licences include trial licences and licences that have been loaned to the licence server - ie licences that will expire at some point.

You can also use this tab to cancel licence loans, returning the loaned licences to the licence server prior to the original expiry date of the loan.

If you use more than one licence server, you can view details of each licence server by entering the name of the computer on which it is installed in the Server name field and clicking Refresh. Alternatively, click Browse to search the network for the computer on which the licence server is installed.

The following information about available licences is displayed in the Active licence totals grid:

Product - the name of the Elecosoft product to which the licences relate.
Type - if not standard licences, the type of licence, for example Trial, Read Only or Educational.
Mode - whether the licences are standalone (local) or network licences.
Total - the number of licences that have been added to the licence server, minus any licences that have been moved or loaned from the licence server. This figure includes any temporary licences that have been added to the licence server.
Issued - the number of licences that are currently in use by clients.
Avail - the number of licences that are available to be issued to clients.

The following information about licences that have been loaned to other computers is displayed in the Loaned licences grid:

Product - the name of the Elecosoft product to which the licences relate.
Type - if not standard licences, the type of licence, for example Trial, Read Only or Educational.
Mode - whether the licences are standalone (local) or network licences.
Destination - the name of the computer to which the licences have been loaned.
Date/Time Issued - the date and time at which the licences were loaned.
Quantity - the number of licences that have been loaned.
Days - the number of days for which the licences have been loaned.

Left - the number of days remaining before the licence loan expires.

Expiry Date/Time - the date and time at which the licence loan expires.
Cancellation Status - the status of any licence loan cancellations that are to be attempted repeatedly at regular intervals until successful, and the date and time up to which repeated cancellation attempts will be made.

To cancel a licence loan, returning the loaned licence to the licence server prior to the original expiry date of the loan, select then right-click the appropriate row in the Loaned licences grid and select Cancel Loan. Click here for more information on cancelling licence loans, including information on how to work with loan cancellations that are 'pending' - ie those that have been configured to be attempted repeatedly at regular intervals until successful.

The following information about trial licences and licences that have been loaned to the licence server is displayed in the Temporary licence totals grid:

Product - the name of the Elecosoft product to which the licences relate.
Type - if not standard licences, the type of licence, for example Trial, Read Only or Educational.
Mode - whether the licences are standalone (local) or network licences.
Quantity - the number of temporary licences available on the licence server.
Days - the number of days for which the licences have been loaned, or the number of days for which trial licences are originally usable.
Left - the number of days remaining before the temporary licences expire.
Expiry Date/Time - the date and time at which the temporary licences expire.

You can sort the information in the grids according to the information in any column by clicking the heading of a column. To switch between sorting the information in ascending and descending order, click a column heading more than once.

You can configure Asta Licence Manager to update the information on this tab automatically, using the Automatically refresh displayed data check box on the Options tab. If you choose not to update the information automatically, you can update it manually at any time by clicking Refresh.

Click Copy to copy the information from this tab to the Windows Clipboard, from where you can paste it into another application, for example a word processor or a spreadsheet.