You can centrally manage your Double-Take licenses through the license inventory feature in the Double-Take Console. Ideally, you should select one machine in your organization where you want to maintain the license inventory because the license inventory does not communicate between machines.
By default, the license inventory feature is enabled. You can, and should, disable it on machines that are not maintaining your license inventory. To disable the license inventory, select Options from the console toolbar, deselect Enable license inventory, and click Save.
To manage your license inventory, select License Inventory in the toolbar.
The license inventory feature may not appear in your console if your service provider has restricted access to it.
On the License Inventory page, you can sort the data within a column in ascending and descending order. You can also move the columns to the left or right of each other to create your desired column order. The list below shows the columns in their default left to right order.
Warning or error icon
Warnings indicate the license has not been activated, or it is temporary and will expire. Errors indicate the license has expired.
Serial Number
The serial number associated with the license
Product
The Double-Take product associated with the license
License Type
A short description of the type of license, including any expiration date or quantity information
Version
The product version number associated with the license
Server
The name of the server the license has been applied to, if any. If the same license key is used on multiple servers, for example with evaluation licenses, you will see multiple entries in the license inventory for each server that is using that license key.
Use the following toolbar controls to manage your licenses.
Import Licenses
Imports all of the license keys from a license inventory file into the license inventory. This is a file you may have received from Double-Take Software, or it may be from another Double-Take Console. Depending on the information contained in the file, you may be prompted to activate some of the servers in your license inventory.
Export Licenses
Exports all of the license keys in the license inventory to a license inventory file. This is a file that you may want to send to Double-Take Software when upgrading keys for a newer release or when activating licenses. You may also want this file so you can store and back up your license keys.
Add Licenses
Adds license keys into your license inventory. Enter the license keys in the Add Licenses dialog box in the space provided, separating multiple keys by a comma or by putting each key on a separate line.
Remove License
Removes the selected license key from the license inventory. You can only remove license keys that are not being used by any server in the console.
Reclaim License
Returns a deactivated license key (or license keys that have not been activated or do not need activation but are no longer in use on a server) back into the console's license inventory. Reclaimed licenses can then be activated or used on another server. This process does not perform the deactivation process. See Deactivation and host-transfers for that process.
Activate
Activates the license keys in the license inventory.
The activation process will automatically deactivate any licenses that have been uninstalled using the Double-Take Console.
The activation process will automatically upgrade any Double-Take Move version 7.0 or 7.1 license keys in your license inventory.
Group By
Allows you to group the list of licenses by product, version, serial number, or server. If you do not want any grouping, select Do not group.
Search
Allows you to search all of the columns for items in the list that match the criteria you have entered.