Reserving Entitlements for Specific Clients or Users

You can reserve entitlements so that they can only be used by specific client computers or security users. This can ensure that lower priority users cannot use up all the entitlements, preventing a higher priority user from using them.

When reserved entitlements are in use, there are two pools of entitlements, one reserved for high priority users and one for standard users. A standard user cannot use entitlements in the reserved pool, only the standard pool. A high priority user will first attempt to use entitlements from the reserved pool, but if there are no reserved entitlements available, they can use entitlements from the standard pool.

Entitlements can either be reserved on a per-computer or per-user basis.

  1. Open Platform Services Configuration.

  2. Go to the Reserve License tab.

  3. In the Client Reserved Licenses table, add the name or IP address of the client computer, specify the type of entitlement in the License Type column, then enter the number of entitlements you'd like to reserve in the Count column.

Here are some commonly reserved entitlements and which license type to use:

Entitlement

License Type

Advanced Client Station

Desktop

Client Station

iCal

AlarmWorX64 Client Station

AWX64

GraphWorX64 Client Station

GWX64

  1. Open Platform Services Configuration.

  2. Go to the Reserve License tab.

  3. Enter the number of reserved users in the number of reserved user license blocks field.

  4. Open Workbench and expand Security.

  5. Edit a user or group and check reserved licensing.

When reserving licenses per user, one each of these specific entitlements will be reserved per license block:

  • Advanced Client Station

  • Client Station

  • AlarmWorX64 Client Station

  • GraphWorX64 Client Station

  • TrendWorX64 Client Station

  • Workbench Client Station

  • MobileHMI Client Station

  • Write Client