Refreshing a floating licence
Refreshing a floating licence online is straightforward:
- Bring up the SCP Licence Server (see 'Installing a Floating Licence Server'). You'll need to do this with administrator rights
- Click "Remove licence server"
- Click "Install licence server". You may need to enter the licence key again, depending on the version of the licence server tool.
- Restart SCP to get the new licence information.
If you are using offline activations, the process is a little longer:
- Open a command prompt with administrator privileges (this is done by default if you are an administrator on a server)
- Navigate to the folder the licence server is installed to
- Run this command to stop and uninstall the Windows service:
SCPFloatServer_x86.exe -u
- Generate a deactivation request file, and then a new activation request (note that you don't need the key here as it is retained from the previous activation):
SCPFloatServer_x86.exe -deact=DeactivationRequest.xml
SCPFloatServer_x86.exe -a -areq=ActivationRequest.xml
- Send the created files to support@ist.org.uk. We will process them and send back an activation response file. Save it to the same folder and run this command:
SCPFloatServer_x86.exe -a -aresp=ActivationResponse.xml
- The licence server is now activated, but isn't yet running. This command will install and start the Windows service:
SCPFloatServer_x86.exe -i