User-Based Licensing User Guide

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User-Based Licensing overview

1. Product activation. Configures licensing for a specific Arm software product and user, on a

device. Activating a product creates a license in the local storage for the device. This cached

license is valid for 30 days. For further details see:

• See Activate your product using an activation code

• See Activate your product using a license server

2. Product use. When your Arm software product runs, it checks your entitlement to use the

product by connecting to the license server or activation code URL. If the product cannot

connect to the license server or activation code URL, the cached license in the device local

storage is used. As long as the cached license remains valid, unmet network requirements are

not reported.

Each day your product runs, the product automatically attempts to renew the cached license

for another 30 days.

3. Product deactivation. Removes the entitlement of a user to use an Arm software product on a

device. See Deactivate your product for more details.

2.4 Network requirements for user-based licensing

Describes the network requirements for Arm user-based licensing.

The phase of the license lifecycle require network access:

• Product activation requires network access to enable delivery of a license to the device local

storage

• Product use requires network access at least once every 30 days to renew the license

• Product deactivation does not require network access, as the product is only deactivated locally

The network access required depends on the type of licensing used; activation code or license

server.

Users can work completely offline when using license keys, for further details see

Activate your product if your device is offline.

Network requirements for activation codes

Users require access to the following URLs:

• https://api.arm.com/p-software-licensing

• https://arm.compliance.flexnetoperations.eu/instances

A simple way to check whether you have access to these resources is to copy and paste the above

URLs above into the address field of your web browser:

• A successful test returns a 404 Not Found error, which means the end-point responded.

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