Activate a Distributor License

Distributor licenses are activated using the Distributor Web Administration portal. By default this is located at http://<DistributorServer>:2468/web where <Distributor Server> is the fully qualified domain name (or the IP address) of the server on which Distributor is installed.

Activating a Distributor License

There are two ways to activate a Distributor license depending on whether the machine on which Distributor is installed has internet access or not.

Online Activation

If the machine on which Distributor is installed has internet access then:

• Select the Activation Tab on Web Administration page.
• Enter the Activation Key and click Submit.

The page will display an appropriate message if the activation has been successful and an appropriate error message if unsuccessful.

Manual Activation

If the machine on which Distributor is installed has no direct internet access available then:

• Select the Activation tab and click on the Manual Activation link.

• Enter the Activation Key for the license and click Submit.
• Copy the content of License Request Data field and send it to the application vendor (e.g. via email, HTTP or FTP) to be processed.
• On receipt of the license file copy it to the file system on machine on which Distributor is installed.
• Navigate to the Distributor Manual Activation page, Browse to find the license file saved from the previous step and click Install.

As with Online activation mode the page will display an appropriate message if the activation has been successful and an appropriate error message if unsuccessful.

Viewing Activated Licenses in Distributor

Select the Products tab and then Show Licenses link to display a summary of the license installed. Select the More link to see the details of a given license.

That’s it! Distributor is now ready to automatically allocate features to instances of protected applications that have been correctly configured to communicate with it.