Configuring System Settings

Description Max Length

15 or specify

Maximum number of characters in the description field displayed in tables.

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Communities Link

http://community.
revenera.com
or specify

URL for a community link.

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Fulfillment ID Generator Classname

com.flexnet.
operations.generator.
OpsFIDGenerator
or specify

Set this parameter to the Java class that implements com.flexnet.operations.publicapi.FulfillmentIDGenerator interface: It is used to generate fulfillment IDs and consolidated license IDs.

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Basic IP Address Host ID Validation

Selected or unselected

Permits or prohibits basic validation of IP address values by FlexNet Operations.

Default: Selected.

When selected, FlexNet Operations and the VCG validate the octet values of IP addresses according to the special host id types validation rules.

To disable IP address validation, unselect this setting and use a version 12.8.0.1 or later VCG configured to disable validation for internet host IDs. (Some minimal validation—requiring numeric values or asterisks—still occurs based on FlexNet Publisher requirements.)

Interval to Poll the VCG

Value in ms (default 50)

After license generation process is submitted to VCG, FlexNet Operations polls VCG at this interval (in milliseconds) to check if license generation is complete.

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Maximum Lifetime for a VCG Process

Number of licenses (default 50)

Maximum number of licenses that a single VCG process generates, after which the VCG instance is shut down and another one generated.

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Always Display Page Count of Search Results

Selected or unselected

Determining the number of pages of search results is often time consuming. Deselect this box to prevent automatic display of the number of pages returned. This reduces the time needed to load the landing pages for Entitle Customers, Activate Licenses, and Support Licenses.

Use SUPERSEDE or SUPERSEDE_SIGN Keyword

None (default)

Use SUPERSEDE for Upgrade

Use SUPERSEDE for Renewal

Use SUPERSEDE for upgrade and renewal

Use SUPERSEDE_SIGN for Upgrade

Use SUPERSEDE_SIGN for Renewal

Use SUPERSEDE_SIGN for upgrade and renewal

Select to use either SUPERSEDE or SUPERSEDE SIGN for upgrade or renewal of licenses. GCS must carefully evaluate the risks before setting this flag. Refer to the product documentation to understand the risks.

Override Older Fulfillments on Host Using SUPERSEDE_SIGN Keyword

Selected or unselected

When fulfillment A is upgraded or renewed to create fulfillment B, if SUPERSEDE_SIGN keyword is enabled, licenses in fulfillment B supersede signatures in fulfillment A. If fulfillment B is upgraded or renewed to fulfillment C and this is selected, fulfillment C supersedes signatures from fulfillments A and B. Ensures that counts provided by fulfillment A are disabled even if user removes fulfillment B license from their server. However, this increases length of license line (limited to 4096 bytes).

Number of Allowed Retries

Number of retries

For the createLicense web service only: enter an integer value greater than zero to retry the createLicense transaction if there is a failure due to concurrent modification exception.

Do Not Sort Results by Default

Selected or unselected

If selected, search results are not sorted by Last Modified Date on Operations landing pages.

Entitlement Certificate File Name

EntitlementCertificate.
html or specify

Default file name used for the HTML entitlement certificate. The file extension should be either .html or .htm for browser display.

Send Email on Set License for On-Hold Fulfillments

Selected or unselected

Determines whether to send email to an end user while a license is set for on-hold fulfillments.

Mapped Users or Account Records in Create Account and User Page

Number of records

Number of Mapped User or Account records displayed on the Create Account and User Page. This setting overrides the default Records Per Page setting in the User Interface configuration.

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Add Default Comment Line in License File

Selected or unselected

For FlexNet license files containing non-ASCII characters, the first line in the license file must be a comment line. This comment line is added by default by FlexNet Operations. If this comment line is causing issues with downstream applications, deselect this setting.

Bulk Operation Batch Size

Number of records

The number of SQL statements to group as a batch during a bulk operation.

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Bulk Operation ‘Select All Line Items’ Batch Size

Number of records

The number of entitlement line items to group as a batch.

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Bulk Operation Retry Sleep Interval

Number of seconds

The time, in seconds, to sleep before retrying a bulk operation.

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Allow Editing of Deployed Entities

Selected or unselected

Permits some modification of product, suite, feature bundle, entitlement, and line item attributes post-deployment.

Default: Unselected.

When enabled, editing of the following elements is possible:

Products: name, version, package name, package version, feature/feature bundle list (can add to, or remove from list), and Can be used on a device? setting.

Suites: name, version, package name, package version, product list (can add to, or remove from list), and Can be used on a device? setting.

Feature bundles: name, version, and feature list (can add to, or remove from list).

Entitlements

Line items

Note that inactive or obsolete entities cannot be changed.

By Default Show Product Information in the Select Host Page

Selected or unselected

Shows product information on the Select License Host page (part of the Generate License wizard), both in the Producer Portal and in the End-User Portal. When you hide the product information FlexNet Operations still provides a link that, when clicked, shows the product information for a specific host.

Default: Selected.

Always Attach Entitlement Certificate in Email

Selected or unselected

Select to attach entitlement certificate in email.

Cloud License Service URL

test or specify

The URL used when auto-provisioning a Cloud Licensing Service instance during entitlement creation. Intended to be used in entitlement creation emails.

Auto upgrade batch size

10 or specify

Number of line items to be processed in a single transaction during automatic product upgrade. Defaults to 10.

Enable User Expiration

Selected or unselected

Enables an expiration date when a user no longer has access to an account. This is applicable to all users except:

To disable the expiration date for all users, unselect the box. This prevents all users’ account access from expiring.

RabbitMQ URL

Specify valid URL

URL used by notification framework (including login credentials and virtual host) in <protocol>://<hostname>:<port> format.

License Fulfillment Service URL

Specify valid URL

URL used by license fulfillment framework in <protocol>://<hostname>:<port> format.

Windows VCG Service URL

Specify valid URL

URL for the Windows VCG service endpoint in <protocol>://<hostname>:<port> format.

Usage Analytics Service URL

Specify valid URL

URL for the usage analytics service endpoint in <protocol>://<hostname>:<port> format.

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End-User Portal Host Name

Specify valid hostname

End-User Portal hostname in <protocol>://<hostname>:<port> format.

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Custom License Generator Host

Specify valid host

Custom License Generator Host as protocol://host:port. This value can be referenced as {CUSTOM_TECH_HOST} in Custom License Technology URL.

Base FNOC Consumer Queue Name

ops.fnoc.consumer or specify

Base name of the tenant specific queue in RabbitMQ, which is concatenated with the tenantid to form the full queue name.

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Use Soap Service for VCG

Selected or unselected

Select to use the SOAP service for secure license generation, instead of the Windows VCG Service or the Linux VCG Service.

Default: Unselected.

VCG Service User Name

Valid user name in the format domain/username

The user name used to authenticate the SOAP service for generating the secure license.

Server Deployment Choice

Local
Cloud
Both

Select whether FlexNet Embedded server deployments can be local, cloud, or both.

Skip Account Check – for devices (see previous row for hosts)

Selected or unselected

Devices: Controls sharing of devices across accounts. By default, FlexNet Operations applies rules to limit the mapping of entitlements to devices based on the device owner account.

Generally, enabling Skip Account Check permits entitlements that belong to accounts other than the device owner and its sub-accounts to be mapped to a device. (See About Device Management for more information.)

Unselected (Default)

The FlexNet Embedded license generator executes the activation request when

The FlexNet Embedded license generator produces an error when the activation ID is owned by the parent account and the device is owned by one of its child accounts.

Selected

The FlexNet Embedded license generator executes the activation request without regard to the account that owns the device.

Device user option

Off (default)
On with no validation
On with validation

Select to offer the option to assign a user to a device, as well as whether the system checks the validity of the user.

Expiring Window

90 or specify.

Default: 90 days.

The number of days in the future, including the day the Expiring Entitlements job runs, to search for entitlements that are soon to expire.

Together with the Expiring Email Frequency, Expiring Window determines whether or not FlexNet Operations sends a Renewal Reminder email message. See More About the Expiring Entitlements Job for details.

This value and the Renewal Critical value determine the way line items are highlighted on the Expiring Entitlements page in the End-User Portal. Line items that expire in the span between the Renewal Critical setting and the Expiring Window setting are highlighted in yellow.

Tip:The Expiring Window value must be smaller than the Renewal Look Ahead value.

Version:This setting is only used for producers who have the FlexNet Customer Growth module.

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Expired Email Frequency

30 or specify.

Default: 30 days.

The minimum number of days to wait before sending out the next expired entitlements message to a particular account.

If FlexNet Operations has sent an expired entitlements message to an account within the number of days specified, no new email messages are sent, even if newly expired entitlements are discovered when the Expired Entitlements job runs. (Expired entitlements messages are based on the Renewal Reminder for Expired Entitlements email template.)

See More About the Expired Entitlements Job for details.

Version:This setting is only used for producers who have the FlexNet Customer Growth module.

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Request Renewal Notification Email

Valid email address

An email address, managed by the producer, to which an end user’s intent-to-renew messages are sent.

In the End-User Portal, the Expiring Entitlements page includes a Request button. When an end user selects expiring entitlements and clicks Request, the End-User Portal sends an intent-to-renew message (based on the Renewal Intent for End Customer email template) to the email address you specify here.

Request Renewal Notification Email is optional.

The Renewal Callout and the Request Renewal Notification Email are not mutually exclusive. If both are present, FlexNet Operations runs the callout code and sends an email to the address indicated by Request Renewal Notification Email. If neither setting has a value, the Request button is suppressed in the End-User Portal.

Version:This setting is only used for producers who have the FlexNet Customer Growth module.

Renewal Health Thresholds (Low,High)

0-100,0-100

Default: 30,70

The low and high markers for a customer's renewal health. A low renewal health score is indicative of a risky renewal. A renewal health at or above the high mark translates to a high probability of the renewal.

Alert Period

0-30

Default: 5

The period in days to wait before generating another alert for the same account and score type.