Assigning Endpoint Licenses to Clients Automatically

Syteca is currently the only such product on the market to offer floating endpoint licensing. This unique functionality allows endpoint licenses to be reassigned between Clients both manually at any time, and automatically.

In Multi-Tenant mode, when licenses are reassigned between Clients (either automatically or manually), the licenses always remain in the same tenant, unless the admin user of the built-in default tenant moves them between tenants manually.

Reassignment of endpoint licenses can be done in any of the following ways (or in all ways simultaneously):

• Manual Reassignment: Reassignment of endpoint licenses between Client computers can be done manually at any time in just a couple of clicks, in the same way as when assigning/unassigning licenses to/from Clients.

• Automatic Reassignment: There are two different types of functionality for automatic endpoint license reassignment:

- NOT AVAILABLE IN SAAS Using the Delete offline Clients without sessions option (on the Configuration Management page, on the Database Management tab, at the bottom of the Archive Parameters section): Allows endpoint licenses to be unassigned automatically whenever there are any offline Clients without any session records. If the checkbox is selected to enable this option, the system will automatically delete offline Clients whenever they do not have any Client sessions stored (e.g. after a database Cleanup operation), and return the licenses from these Clients to the pool of available licenses.

NOTE: It is recommended to select the "Delete offline Clients without sessions" checkbox (on the Configuration page, on the Database Management tab) to enable this option, so as to prevent accumulation of obsolete offline Clients by purging them automatically whenever they do not have any Client sessions stored (e.g. after a database Cleanup operation) and to return the endpoint licenses from these Clients to the pool of available licenses.

- Using a golden image (for virtual desktops): Floating endpoint licensing can also be automated to dynamically reassign licenses between virtual desktops. When a new Windows-based desktop is created and deployed using a golden image (please refer to the Enabling Golden Image Mode for the Application Server page), the Client is registered and gets a license from the pool of available licenses automatically. Whenever the Client machine is shut down, the license is released and returns back to the pool. In this way, for VMware or Citrix desktop monitoring, you only need the amount of Syteca Workstation endpoint licenses corresponding to the maximum possible number of simultaneously active virtual desktops at any one time.

NOTE: For effective use of floating endpoint licenses, either or both of the Default for Workstations / Default for Servers operating system assignment types must first be set for the appropriate license types (where each option can only be set for one of the endpoint license types at any one time) in the "Default For" column (on the Serial Key Management tab of the Configuration page).