The License Lifecycle: Entitlement Management

The FlexNet Operations license lifecycle is a repeating process of producer and customer activities, as depicted in the figure and described below.

FlexNet Operations License Lifecycle

Product creation and entitlement, the first two stages of the license lifecycle, are covered in this getting started section.

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Create Products – Create product definitions that are used to generate licenses.

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Order/Entitle – Define a customer’s rights to obtain licenses for your products.

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Deliver⁄Install – Deliver the application software to the customer and install that software.

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Activate – Deliver licenses to the customer.

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Return/Rehost – Manage license transfers from one user or system to another.

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Maintain/Update – Deliver software and license updates to the customer.

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Upsell/Renew – Renew customer licenses, or sell the customer additional product functionality.