Reset Licensing

With Privilege Manager v10.7 and up license registrations can be reset. The Reset Licensing task allows upgrading users to remove outdated licenses.

After acknowledging the license reset, all licenses are removed from the Privilege Manager instance. When no licenses can be found, the no product licenses warning banner displays on the top of the console.

Using the Reset Licensing Task

  1. Navigate to the Admin | Tasks.

  2. From the Tasks folder tree, select Server Tasks | Utility.

  3. From the options on the right, select Reset Licensing.

    Select Reset Licensing

    Reset Licensing is a read-only task.

    Reset Licensing task

  4. Click Run.

    To run the task, the user needs to acknowledge the removal of all installed license key.

    Select acknowledgement

    The task does not run without that acknowledgement and an error is generated.

Do not use the scheduling functionality on this task. After a license reset, new licenses should be applied ASAP.

To re-apply licenses refer to the information under Licensing in the Installation and Upgrades section.