Licensing 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. It also allows to register the 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.
Licenses and Consumption details
Users can check the licenses consumption details from HCL License Portal as well as from the Unica Platform Licensing Details page.by navigating to Settings > Licensing Details page. Clicking on View License details page dispalys the license consumption count for all entitled products. In case there is no connectivity with License server, license consumption can be downloaded and shared with Unica.
| Product Name | HCL Unica product name for which entitlement is allotted |
| License Type | Term/Perpetual |
| Start Date | Entitlement start date |
| Expiry Date | Entitlement expiry date (Not applicable for Perpetual license) |
| Entitlements available | Total number of entitlement allotted for a device or server. |
| Entitlements consumed | Number of entitlements consumed till now |
| Overdraft entitlements | Licensing model used, current model support unlimited overdrafts. (Not applicable for Perpetual license) |
| Overdraft consumed | Different between entitlements available entitlements consumed. (Not applicable for Perpetual license) |
For more details on licensing, see the HCL Unica Licensing Guide.
License configuration
Users require to configure the license with HCL Unica products before start using it. When users access the Unica Platform login URL, it they are redirected to the License Configuration page. Users must configure the license details on this page. Unica Platform validates the license and on successful license configuration, users are redirected to the Unica Platform login screen.
| License server | License Server API url, User can get the license server url from the HCL License portal. |
| User | HCL License Server – For any device created by default “admin” user is supported. |
| Password | Password set for the device |
| Unica Environment Type | User can specify if this is “Production” or “Non-Production” environment. |
| Proxy | Use proxy server to connect to HCL License Portal. Use proxy server if you do not have outbound access to HCL License Portal. |
| Proxy Host | Proxy server hostname or IP address |
| Proxy Port | Proxy server port |
| Proxy User | Proxy server user |
| Proxy Password | Proxy server user’s password |
All these license server details are stored in Unica Platform. User can navigate to Settings > Licensing details page if license details needs to be changed.
Licensing server availability
HCL Unica products require to be always connected to the HCL License portal. HCL Unica products become inaccessible if there is no connectivity for 5 hours between HCL Unica products and HCL License Portal server. Users are redirected to the License Details page. Once connectivity between HCL Unica and HCL License server is established users are able to access the application. HCL Unica products keep on updating the consumption details to HCL License portal every 10 mins. In case of connectivity issue, the consumption details helps the Unica Platform and once the connectivity is established the consumption is updated on the HCL License portal.
License consumption details
Users can check the licenses consumption details from HCL License Portal as well as from the Unica Platform Licensing Details page. User can navigate to Settings > Licensing Details page. Clicking on View License details page displays the license consumption count for all entitled products.
| Product Name | HCL Unica product name for which entitlement is allotted |
| License Type | Term/Perpetual |
| Start Date | Entitlement start date |
| Expiry Date | Entitlement expiry date (Not applicable for Perpetual license) |
| Entitlements available | Total number of entitlement allotted for a device or server. |
| Entitlements consumed | Number of entitlements consumed till now |
| Overdraft entitlements | Licensing model used, current model support unlimited overdrafts. (Not applicable for Perpetual license) |
| Overdraft consumed | Different between entitlements available entitlements consumed. (Not applicable for Perpetual license) |
License details page displays message indicating "No licenses configured on this environment as this environment is non-production environment". When you have selected environment as non-production environment while specifying license details.
If you require to make any non-production environment as production environment. You can change the license details and mark the environment type as “production”. When you mark this environment as production environment it requires to enter all license details.
For more details, see the Unica Licensing document.