User-Based Licensing User Guide

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Using user-based licensing

3.2 Activate your product using an activation code

To enable your Arm® software product to work with your user-based product entitlement, you

must activate your product. This topic describe how to activate your product using a product code.

Before you begin

• Install your Arm product.

• For each end-user and service account, Arm or your license administrator provides you with an

activation code. An activation code is a sequence of letters and digits that have the following

pattern, where X represents any letter or digit:

XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

An activation code is not associated with any user or service account until its first use in the

product activation process.

About this task

• You can activate a product on multiple devices with the same activation code using the same

username.

• Sharing the same username for more than one user is not permitted by your license agreement.

For details of activation using a license server see Activate your product using a license server and

for details of how to activate an offline device using an activation code see Activate your product if

your device is offline.

Procedure

Run the following command to activate a product using a code:

armlm activate --code <activation_code>

If by error, you activated the license with an incorrect username, contact your

license administrator to revoke the activation code and generate a new one.

Next steps

After activation, the license is bound to the username of the end-user or service account for a

maximum of 30 days. Any time you use the Arm product that supports user-based licensing on

the same device, the software attempts to extend the license for the next 30 days by contacting

the licensing URLs (for details see Network requirements for user-based licensing). If the license

cannot be extended, for example there is no connection to the URLs, the product can still be used

as licensed until the 30-day limit expires.

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