For most users of Sage Estimating, it is not necessary to allocate licenses across multiple servers.

If you need to allocate licenses across multiple servers, this window allows you to allocate your Sage licenses to multiple servers—for example, if you have several corporate offices and want to use separate licenses for each office, or if you want to reserve a certain quantity of licenses for a specific group of people.

Because the Sage Estimating license controls the number of license uses, it is the only license which is “use-counted.” Therefore the only license that is allocated among multiple servers is the Sage Estimating license. The additional modules are not use-based and can be used by anyone with a core Sage Estimating license and the appropriate security permission.

Example 1—Multiple servers with specific allocations

Assume you have three servers that you want to allocate as follows:

At each of the servers, you would select the Manually specify allocations for this server option in the Multi-Server License Administration window, and select the number of licenses for that server.

If you later purchase additional licenses, you must go into each server where you want the additional licenses to be allocated and update the allocation.

Example 2—Multiple servers with specific allocations for all but one server
Assume you have three servers that you want to allocate as follows:

At servers A and B, select the Manually specify allocations for this server option in the Multi-Server License Administration window, and then select the number of licenses for each server.

At server C, select the Allocate all available licenses to this server option in the Multi-Server License Administration window.

Note: In this example, it is important to select the option for server C last. If you choose to automatically allocate all available licenses on server C first, it will take all the available licenses and there will be none left to allocate to servers A and B.

If you purchase additional licenses, they will automatically be allocated to server C when the license activations are updated, unless you manually select the licenses to go to server A or B first.

Note: To open this window, open the License Administration program, and then on the License Information tab, click [Multi-server licensing].

Viewing licenses for a different license server

In the License Administration program, you can see the number of license uses, the users who are logged on to Sage Estimating, and licensing events for this license server.

Note: With a Sage Estimating Essential license, you have only one license use, which you cannot allocate to other servers.

Licenses are granted to the specific computer where the licenses were initially activated. If you need to see the license uses available on another Sage license server, you can do that in the License Administration window.

To view licenses for a different license server:

1. Select the License Administration program.
2. From the License Administration window, click Change Server.
3. Enter computer name and port number.

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Getting Started: License Administration (SQL)