Check out licenses

If you want to reserve a specific license for a particular user, you can check out this license on the user's machine. As long as the license is checked out, no other host ID can use it. This also includes host IDs of admin users.

Please note that you can check out licenses for a maximum of 30 days.

Before you start

Make sure that the user's machine is connected to the type of license server you use, either the cloud-hosted license server or the on-premises license server (opens in a new tab).

Check out a license

To check out a license on a particular machine, follow these steps:

  1. Access the license configuration and go to the Manage tab.

  2. Select your license type from the dropdown and Apply.

  3. In the list of available licenses, activate the checkbox for all licenses you want to check out. You can check out entire license packages, or you can expand license packages and select specific licenses from these packages.

  1. Specify how long you want to check out the selected license(s).

  2. Select Checkout.

If you're not sure which licenses you currently have checked out, you can get a list of available licenses on your local machine.

Return checked-out licenses

If you no longer need your checked-out licenses and want to free them up for other users, you can return them:

  1. Access the license configuration and go to the Manage tab.

  2. In the license type dropdown, select the license type from which you checked out your licenses. Then select Apply.

  3. In the subsequent dialog, select OK to confirm the return of your checked-out licenses.