When you purchase a subscription, you receive a single license key with it called Primary Key. In many business situations a single license key may not be flexible enough. For this reason, Parallels provides you with the ability to create additional license keys (also known as sublicenses) linked to your Primary Key. When creating a license key, you can allocate a desired number of licenses to it and specify a custom expiration date.
Note: Please note that grace periods (expiration time) described earlier in this guide apply only to the primary license key.
Planning for license keys
Additional license keys are useful in these typical scenarios:
You want to grant a division of your organization the ability to use a limited number of your available licenses (concurrent users). You can create a license key with a required number of licenses and give it to the administrator of that division.
You don't want another Parallels RAS administrator to have control of your Primary Key. You can create an additional license key and give it to that administrator.
All of the allocated licenses in a license key are reserved exclusively for that particular key. None of the licenses (including unused ones) are available to the Primary Key or other additional keys.
Note: At the time of this writing, licensing checks are done periodically, which means that the cap value specified should not be considered as a hard limit.
Creating a license key
To create an additional license key:
On the Subscription Details page, click Create License Key. The License Key dialog opens.
You can specify the following properties:
To change the display name for this license key, click the "pencil" icon and enter the desired name.
In the Quota of Licenses field, specify the desired number of individual licenses (concurrent users) that the key should contain.
Select the Renew with Subscription option if you want this license key to have the same expiration date as the Primary Key. The key will also renew automatically when you renew your subscription. To set a custom expiration date, clear the option and enter the date in the Expiration Date field.
Click Save to create a license key.
Modify or delete a license key
To modify an existing license key, make sure you are on the Subscription Details page. Click the "gear" icon at the end of the license key row. This will open the dialog where you can modify the license key properties.
To delete a license key, click Delete Key. Please note that if you have an active Parallels RAS farm using this license key, it will be deactivated.
Note: You can assign one or more administrators to manage a license key. For example, if you create a license key to be used by a specific division in your organization, you can invite the administrator of that division to join the business account and give them rights to manage that particular license key. For the complete information, please see Inviting Users to Join a Business Account and Managing License Administrators.
