Licensing Terminology

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A code assigned by VSNi to uniquely identify the physical location of an organis

An RLM license which allows one named user to access their VSNi software on any mach

Provides high volumes of simultaneous user access to VSNi software across a single universit

A single license which manages access to VSNi software for a number of users at a single organisation

The count value associated with an enterprise or cloud license which may be shared across a large user community.

An installation of software and associated licensing service in a cloud environment rather than on a physical machine or server

The emulation of a physical computer created by providing all of the attributes of a specific operating system via a remote server such that to the user it acts like a physical computer.

A floating Genstat license that is installed on an On-Premises Flexnet Server system. Each Genstat installation requires a license file that points to the On-Premises Flexnet Server system.

A license which provides access to VSNi software for use in relation to academic studies. These are 'full version' licenses provided at preferential rates to support teaching in higher education settings.

A node-locked license is an encrypted ‘key’ that is locked to a specific machine. This is only applicable for Genstat licensing and RLM Student licenses (although Student licenses do require internet access to use)

A license which provides access to VSNi software for use by students in relation to their academic studies. These may have reduced functionality, and may be locked to a specific computer.

Academic licenses (Edu license) provide full access (see above)

A license which provides access to VSNi software for a short period of time, typically 14 but possibly up to 30 days. This is to allow potential customers to assess the suitability of the software to their application and to understand the set-up requirements.

A session is the time period between the startup of the licensed product until it has completed it's task and terminated. An enterprise license user may run two sessions for each license they successfully checkout from the available shared license.

A cloud license user may run four per shared license.

A software licensing service that is hosted in the cloud (such as RLM). Users need internet access to achieve license authentication when they log-in, but this adds flexibility. It allows the user to have multiple downloads of the software to access on different machines without the need for multiple licenses

An instance equates to a single access of the software. The license may allow for more than one concurrent instance. The same user may access more than one instance concurrently if the software license allows for this. Equally each instance might be accessed by a single user, allowing multiple users to access the so

A license service which is hosted on a customer’s own machine or server. No internet connection is required. Where users cannot access the internet, perhaps due to specific IT protocols within their organisation, then we can provide a bespoke ‘on-premises’ licensing service. This will be for larger installations only and will carry a premium charge.

A container, in this context, is a term used to describe a very specific type of virtual machine. It typically has a single application installation, such as ASReml-SA or ASReml-R, that is made available through its management platform. VSNi currently utilise the Docker Machine to manage our containers. Several service providers such as AWS and Azure offer services to support the deployment of this type of container image.