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Keysight Licensing Utilities Overview
License Management Utilities
Keysight provides license management utilities to enable you to install, view, transport, borrow, and uninstall the licenses you have purchased for use with Keysight products. These license management utilities enable you to specify license servers (to set up a license server, see "Keysight License Server" below under Related Links) from which to share floating licenses among a number of users with the same product.
Keysight employs industry-standard (FlexNet Publisher) and proprietary licensing technology to enable licenses for products that can be installed and run on Windows and Linux PCs, as well as Windows-based instruments. Each version of licensing has an associated license management utility.
PathWave License Manager is the most current, covers the broadest range of license types and features; and is the suggested license manager choice.
Please refer to your Keysight product documentation to determine which of the following license management utilities are appropriate for your product(s). In most cases, the appropriate license management utility is included in the installation of your Keysight product or is preinstalled on your Keysight instrument.
PathWave License Manager (PLM)
This license management utility allows you to manage all types of Keysight licenses for a wide variety of software products and instruments.
Version 7.5 of PLM provides virtual feature-compatibility with Keysight License Manager 5, and can be used in place of KLM 5.
Version 7.3 and later of PLM is fully feature-compatible with Keysight License Manager 6, and has replaced KLM 6.
| Node-locked licenses | Install, view, and uninstall |
| Transportable licenses | Install, view, and transport |
| USB portable licenses | Install, view, and uninstall |
| Floating licenses | Install, view, and borrow; additionally, specify a remote (floating) license server |
Comparison of PathWave License Manager and Keysight License Manager 5
Keysight License Manager 5
This license management utility allows you to manage node-locked and transportable licenses for a number of software products and instruments.
PathWave License Manager (v7.5.0 and later) provides equivalent functionality to Keysight License Manager 5, with the exception of (1) drag-and-drop license transport and (2) remote license management on Windows PCs and instruments.
| Node-locked licenses: | Install, view, delete |
| Transportable licenses: | Install, view, delete, and transport |
Keysight License Manager 6
Note: KLM 6 has been discontinued and replaced by the fully-feature-compatible PathWave License Manager (v7.3 or later).
KLM 6 provided the means to manage floating and USB portable licenses for a variety of software products and instruments.
Keysight License Manager 6 also provided the means to configure remote license servers for sharing licenses across a network.
If KLM 6 was used to configure a remote license server to serve floating licenses to remote clients, then after upgrading to PLM (to replace KLM 6) it is usually required to upgrade the remote license server software as well. This is done by downloading and setting up Keysight License Server on the remote license server which previously hosted KLM 6.
| USB portable licenses: | Install, view, delete |
| Floating licenses: | Install, view, delete, borrow, and configure a license server |
Keysight Floating License Manager for Design Software Products
This license management utility allows you to manage floating and USB portable licenses specifically for Design Software products.
| Node-locked licenses: | Install, view, delete |
| USB portable licenses: | Install, view, delete |
| Floating licenses: | Install, view, delete, and configure license server |
You can use the Keysight Floating License Manager for EDA to configure remote license servers for sharing licenses across a network, or to configure a local license server (used with Design Software node-locked licenses) on the computer or instrument where your Keysight software is installed.
