The traditional license of SuperMap GIS series products
consist of the official license and trial license, which will be introduced
separately below:
Trial License
SuperMap GIS series products provide a 90-day trial
license by default. You only need to install SuperMap GIS series products
to view the status of the trial license of the corresponding product by
deploying the SuperMap License Center on Windows
or installing the license driver on Linux.
Official License
There are two forms of formal licenses: file license
and hardware license. Hardware license is divided into stand-alone key
and network key.
- File License means to get the legal software
license online or offline, and it will take effect when activated
on this machine. File license is divided into the stand-alone file
license and network file license. Activating a stand-alone file license
can only provide license service for this machine, but activating
a network software license can provide license service for computers
on the current network. Note: the network file license cannot be transferred
after activating the network file license on the license server.
- The hardware license is to obtain a legal
software operation license in the form of a hardware dongle ( "hardlock"
for short). The hardlock can be divided into the following two types:
- Stand-alone key: Only one authorization license
is provided, and it needs to be installed on the same computer with
SuperMap GIS products. The appearance of the stand-alone key is green
frosted.
- Network key: The network key can be installed
on any computer in the network and can provide multiple licenses.
The computer installed the network key is called the license server.
Clients within the permitted range in the network can use the network
key regardless of whether the driver is installed or not. The appearance
of the network key is red frosted.
When using the hardlock,
please note:
- Before inserting the hardlock, you need to
install a dongle driver fisrt for recognizing the hardlock. If you
use a stand-alone key, please install the dongle driver on the local
machine; if you use a network key, you must install the dongle driver
on the license server.
- After inserting the hardlock into the computer,
the lighted signal indicator on the hardlock indicates it is valid.
- For the two hardlocks, the stand-alone key
will be used first on the same computer.
- If you use the hardlock on the virtual machine,
you need to connect the hardlock to the virtual machine through
related settings of virtual machine software.
Ways to obtain a license
Trial
License
SuperMap
GIS series products provide a 90-day trial license by default. You can
also apply online: https://www.supermapol.com/web/pricing/triallicense.
Official License
You can contact the relevant
salesman to purchase the official license.
Use license
Activate
license
After obtaining the official license and trial license,
you need to activate the license through the license center. For the Windows
system, please refer to the configuration
license information in the Windows environment. For the Linux system,
please refer to the configuration license information
in the Linux environment.
Enable license
After activating the license, when you start iPortal
for the first time, you can configure the license through the initialization
wizard, such as the license type, the product version, and the corresponding
extension modules. The highest version of the activated licenses is used
by default, and all activated extension module licenses are used.
Specific steps:
- Start iPortal,
enter the iPortal service address in the browser, such as http://supermapiportal:8190/iportal
- Create an administrator
account and check the system environment according to the initialization
wizard
- Enter the "Configure
License" interface, which displays the activated traditional
license by default.
- Click "Next"
to complete the license configuration and enter the completion page.
Click the link http://supermapiportal:8190/iportal/ on the page to
enter the iPortal homepage, and click the link http://supermapiportal:8190/iportal/admin-ui/home
to enter the iPortal management page
Note: Licensing
can also be enabled through an environment variable when there is already
a license server in the network. Add the LICENSE_SERVER parameter to the
environment variable and set its value to the address of the license server,
for example:
LICENSE_SERVER=192.168.17.200
View
the license information
After completing the initial
configuration of iPortal, there are two ways to view the license in use:
- View through the license module in the iPortal
management module
- View in the License Center (SuperMap.LicenseCenter)
Switch license types
If you have administrator rights, you can switch the
traditional license to another license in two ways: through initial configuration
changes and system configuration file changes.
1. Change in the initialization configuration
It is recommended that you use the initialization wizard
to make visual changes. Specific steps are as follows:
- Access the
iPortal Initialization Wizard page as an administrator (http://<server>:<port>/iportal/setup)
- Click "Next"
according to the wizard
- Go to the "Configure
License" page to switch to other licenses
- Switch to another license: Select the license
type you want to use in the "Select License Type" drop-down
box, and configure the related items. For the configuration process,
see: Using Cloud Licensing, Using Web Licensing
- Click "Next" to complete the
license change. On the completion interface, click the link http://supermapiportal:8190/iportal/
on the page to enter the iPortal homepage, and click the link http://supermapiportal:8190/iportal/admin-ui/home
to enter the iPortal management page
2.Change in the system configuration file
You can also clear your current license and configure
other licenses by changing the system configuration file. Stop iPortal,
open [iPortal installation directory]\webapps\iportal\WEB-INF\iserver-system.xml
to configure, delete the following <licenseMode> and <license>
nodes, then restart iPortal to reconfigure the license you want to use.
<licenseMode>DefaultLicense</licenseMode>
<license>
<enabledmodules>
<string>IPORTAL</string>
<string>IDATAINSIGHTS</string>
</enabledmodules>
</license>