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Licensing Guide
License Configuration
User will need to configure the license with HCL Unica products before start using, when users access the Unica Platform login URL – it will get redirected to the license configuration page. The user needs to configure the license details on this page. Unica Platform will validate the license and on a successful license, the configuration user will be redirected to the Unica Marketing Platform login screen. There are two radio buttons on the License configuration screen Flexnet and Platform. Flexnet button will connect to Flexnet to consume the license and Platform option is for Master slave configuration. Slave platform will consume the license from the Master platform, so for slave platform user needs to click on the Platform radio button and enter the master platform url and credentials. Once this is done, slave platform will start consuming license from the Master platform, which in turn will consume license from Flexnet.
Download Report
When you click on the Download report button, an encrypted file with extension “.unica” is downloaded. This file cannot be viewed by the user, they need to send the encrypted file to HCL team for decription. During audit, users are asked to share this usage report.

Licensing Guide
- Licensing Overview
- What User Needs To Do?
  HCL Unica customers will get a HCL License portal URL and login credentials via email. This portal will have the license entitlements allotted as per the purchase done by the customer. The customer needs to follow below mentioned steps to complete the registration process and configure the devices for HCL Unica products.
- HCL License Portal
  The license portal provides both Software distribution and management of your Software entitlements purchased from HCL Products and Platforms. The portal provides you with control and flexibility on how to consume your licenses. Typically, an organization will have someone identified as a License Manager that has familiarity with the language of Licenses, and you may wish to add them as a user. If not, you will find these instructions sufficient to begin using your HCL Software.
- Flexnet License Server
- License Models Supported with HCL Unica
  HCL Unica products supports below license models.
- License Configuration
  User will need to configure the license with HCL Unica products before start using, when users access the Unica Platform login URL – it will get redirected to the license configuration page. The user needs to configure the license details on this page. Unica Platform will validate the license and on a successful license, the configuration user will be redirected to the Unica Marketing Platform login screen. There are two radio buttons on the License configuration screen Flexnet and Platform. Flexnet button will connect to Flexnet to consume the license and Platform option is for Master slave configuration. Slave platform will consume the license from the Master platform, so for slave platform user needs to click on the Platform radio button and enter the master platform url and credentials. Once this is done, slave platform will start consuming license from the Master platform, which in turn will consume license from Flexnet.
  - License Server Availability
    HCL Unica products need to be always connected to the HCL License Portal. You can choose to connect with the HCL License portal in multiple ways:
  - Licenses and Consumption details
    User can check the licenses consumption details from HCL License Portal as well as from the Unica Platform licensing details page. Users can navigate to Settings > Licensing details page. Clicking on View License details page will show the license consumption count for all entitled products.
  - Download Report
    When you click on the Download report button, an encrypted file with extension “.unica” is downloaded. This file cannot be viewed by the user, they need to send the encrypted file to HCL team for decription. During audit, users are asked to share this usage report.
  - Local License Server
    You might not be able to connect to cloud-based License server, in this scenario you can have two options as:
- Logging for Licensing
  Detail logging for license server connection, updates, expiry, etc. is logged in Unica Platform log file present under <PLATFORM_HOME>/logs/platform.log. Users will get warning, error, and info type messages related to licensing.

Download Report

When you click on the Download report button, an encrypted file with extension “.unica” is downloaded. This file cannot be viewed by the user, they need to send the encrypted file to HCL team for decription. During audit, users are asked to share this usage report.

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