License

SPP checks out a network license from AV License Server every time it starts, and needs one to work fully — there is no trial mode for SPP; without a valid license it runs in demo mode. Without a License Server, SPP can run with a stand-alone license bound to the computer (see below).

If the License Server does not grant a license (server not configured or not reachable, wrong address or port, no free seat for SPP, license expired, or only a trial available), the main window is not opened: the License window opens instead and shows the reason. A stand-alone license is checked first: the License Server is contacted only when it is missing or not valid, and the reason it was not used is shown too.

• Correct the License Server Server and Port and click Save and retry: the settings are saved and the license is requested again.
• Or import a stand-alone license with Import license...: SPP starts at once.
• Close the window to start SPP in demo mode.

This also applies to batch mode.

Once SPP is running, the License menu opens the same window, with three boxes.

• License
  Customer, product, version, server (host and port, or "Stand-alone license") and, if the license is close to expiring, the expiry date and the number of days remaining. If no license is active, the reason is shown instead.
• Activation code
  • Server / Port and Edit — change the License Server address and port. The change takes effect at the next startup.
  • Borrow license... — keeps the license on this computer for use outside the network. SPP asks for the number of days (7 proposed): the server grants at most its own maximum, and never beyond the license expiry. Until then SPP also starts without the License Server. Available only while connected to the server.
  • Return borrowed license — gives the seat back to the server before the loan expires, making it available to the other users again. SPP then needs the License Server again to run.
• Stand-alone license — license without License Server: a signed .lic file bound to this computer.
  • Computer code and Copy — the code that identifies this computer, copied to the clipboard: send it to your vendor, who returns the .lic file.
  • Import license... — checks the file (signature, this computer, product, expiry), copies it to %ProgramData%\AV_License\SPP.lic and uses it at once.
  • Remove license — deletes the stand-alone license from this computer. SPP then needs the License Server again to run.
  A SPP.lic file placed next to SPP.exe is used as well. A stand-alone license stops working if it expires, if it was issued for another computer or product, or if the system clock is moved back. With a stand-alone license in use, borrowing is not needed.

If the license is lost while SPP is running (connection to the server lost with no borrowed license, or license revoked), a message is shown and SPP continues in demo mode; it goes back to normal as soon as the license is valid again.

Without a valid license (none granted at startup, only a trial available, or license lost while working) SPP still works, also in batch mode, with these limits:

• The window title ends with - DEMO.
• In the converted program every digit of the X, Y, Z, A, B, C, U, V, W, I, J and K values is replaced by the lowercase address letter (X152.645 becomes Xxxx.xxx). Comments, quoted texts and words such as CYCLE800 or TRAORI are not changed.
• The program is shown only in the output panel, where it cannot be selected or copied: the output file, the sub-program files and <program>.tools.xml are not saved, and the Log says so.

A stand-alone license imported from the License menu ends the demo mode at once.

See the AV License Server page for how network licensing works across the whole suite.