Licensing overview

You can find information about the licensing on HCL OneTest™ Server.

To use the features offered by HCL OneTest™ Server, you must purchase the named user licenses for the number of licensed users that you want to configure. You must then install the licenses on the FlexNet Operations server and configure the license server details on HCL OneTest™ Server.

The named user licenses are automatically self-acquired on a first-come-first-serve basis. As an administrator, you can add users to the Named Users list. The licenses are always available for the added users even though the self-acquisition of named user licenses option is disabled in the License Configuration page.

A single named user license is used from the total number of named user licenses under any of the following conditions:

• When you create a project after you log in if you are not a member of any other project.

• When you are approved as a member of a project if you are not the owner of any project.

If the automatic self-acquisition option is disabled, only the users who are added to the Named Users list can perform the these project tasks in HCL OneTest™ Server. However, the other users receive an error notification about the unavailability of the license when they try to perform the project tasks.

The named user license is returned to the license pool only under any of the following conditions:

• When the named user is no longer a member of any projects.

• When the named user is removed as a user of HCL OneTest™ Server.

  Important: The named user license takes a few minutes to be returned to the license pool.