There are different license types available to an ABCS. The following table provides information about these license types.
| License | Description |
|---|---|
| Commercial | A commercial license applies to purchased products and may be perpetual, which means it never expires, or it may be non-perpetual, which means it has a specific expiration date. A commercial license requires activation using the product key that you receive when you purchase the product. A commercial license is locked to the machine on which it is currently activated, but you can deactivate the license at any time to make it available for use on another machine. When you deactivate a commercial license, you can reactivate it on the same or on a different machine. |
| Grace | A grace license is installed with
certain products and is for emergency purposes only. A technician or
customer can then use the product immediately with a limited-time
grace period, instead of activating a license. When the grace period
begins, the license remains valid for 14 days. When the grace period
concludes, the grace license expires and you can no longer use it.
You cannot deactivate a grace license. If you uninstall the product
after starting its grace period, its grace period continues to
count-down for the machine on which you originally installed the
product. If you reinstall the product on the same machine, it reuses
the existing grace license, which may or may not have time
remaining. Note: Not all SCT and CCT
features are available under a grace license, because not all
packages support the grace license. For example, if field
controller packages and device packages are not licensed at the
time you activate a grace license, you cannot insert engines to
the SCT archive or download the controller.
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