Why you may need to return a license
When a license administrator activates an offline Floating license on an On-Premise License Server in your network, the license becomes bound to the License Server computer. This means it cannot be activated on another machine. To move it to another computer or convert it back to an online license, you need to release the license on your On-Premise License Server first and return it back to the SmartBear Licensing Portal.
How to return a license
1. Free the license on the On-Premise License Server
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Ask all users, who are using the license, to close their SmartBear products.
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Log in to the On-Premise Licensing Portal as an administrator (you specified this user’s name and password during the License Server installation).
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On the Portal, find the license you are going to return and click
Return License Back:
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This will invoke the following dialog box:
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Click Download Fingerprint File. This will do the following –
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Generate and download the file with the data on your On-Premise License Server and the license.
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Unbind the license from your On-Premise License Server computer and remove the license data from it. You will see a notification like this:
That is, your On-Premise License Server doesn’t control the license any more. However, the removal is not complete. You need to update the information on the SmartBear Licensing Portal available on the Web.
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2. Import license into the SmartBear Licensing Portal
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Open the SmartBear Licensing Portal webpage in your browser:
Since you are working in a private network, you will need to find a computer that has access to that site.
Log in to the Portal using your license administrator credentials.
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On the Portal, find your offline Floating license and click Import from On-Premise License Server:
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This will invoke the following dialog box:
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In the dialog, upload the fingerprint file you’ve downloaded from the On-Premise License Server, or insert the content of the file:
Note: To activate the “insert contents” mode, click this link in the dialog:
Click Upload File. This will update the SmartBear license database and mark the license as free. The Portal will display the following notification:
The license now is not bound to your On-Premise License Server any more. It is still an offline license. You can now activate it on any other machine or another private network.