Activating Licenses

An activation represents what the customer installed or redeemed against an entitlement. The activation process generates the actual license rights used by the software application you sell to customers, based on the license models you defined earlier.

When activating licenses, the software producer turns on license rights for a product or set of products for a customer account by performing the following tasks:

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Selecting an entitlement line item, identified by an activation ID, that refers to a specific product name and version

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Specifying values for license model attributes that are set at fulfillment time

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Generating a license

This section includes the following main topics.


Topic	Description
Activation Terms	Defines terms used to discuss activations.
Viewing Entitlements to Activate	Explains how to show all activatable line items.
Emailing an Entitlement Line Item	Shows how to email an entitlement line item.
Activating a License	Describes how to activate licenses with either the Activate Licenses wizard or Trusted Activate wizard.
Transferring Entitlement Line Items	Explains how to transfer entitlement line items and use the Transfer Entitlement Line Item Wizard.
Emailing a License	Shows how to email a license.
Manual Activations	Discusses manual activations and how to view a manual activation response.
Short Code Activations	Discusses short code activations and how to view a short code activation response.