Licensing types

Manage Licenses on MyAccount. Administer licenses without a console. Licensing commands for advanced operations. Upgrade the License Server. Configure clustered License Servers. Disaster recovery backup and redundancy.

Troubleshooting your License Server. Frequently asked questions. Document History. Aviso legal. Your Citrix product uses one of the license types described in this document.

Some products allow you to select more than one type of license. Ensure that you are aware of the licenses that are purchased and how they are consumed. Some license types offer license overdraft and supplemental grace period as a feature. For more information, see Products and license models.

The default assignment is a user license. The license server considers each connection and its optimization engine. It ensures that the smallest number of licenses are used based on the userID and deviceID. The license server truncates domains by default so that eng abc. For more information, see Disable the domain name truncation. For example, the user can connect to their desktops and applications using multiple devices such as desktop, laptop, smartphone, or thin client.

A licensed user can connect to multiple instances of Citrix Virtual Desktops concurrently. For example, single shared devices such as a kiosk or a workstation in a call center environment used by multiple users. Blue color cells display user licenses, where the devices are not shared.

Green color cells display device licenses, where the devices are exclusively shared. When users or devices connect to an application or desktop, they consume a license for a 90 day assignment period. The license assignment period begins when a connection is established. The period is renewed to a full 90 day during the life of the connection. For more information, see Display or release licenses for users or devices.

The License Server uses the optimization process to determine how to minimize license consumption. This optimization is based on licenses in use and connections to the License Server.

The License Server optimizes every five seconds until there are unique connections. Connections at and above optimization occurs every five minutes. Optimization might delay status information until the next optimization, impacting when license usage statistics are updated in various consoles. Optimization occurs every five seconds for uses and every five minutes for or more uses. Optimization is not consumption. The following table is the example of connections and optimization time when optimization occurs.

Concurrent license is not tied to a specific userID, Active Directory account, or a domain. Concurrent licensing is based on the originating endpoint deviceID. A user or endpoint device could connect to multiple sessions and use a single license. You start a product that requests a license and it is checked out to a unique endpoint deviceID.

When you log off or disconnect from the session, the license is checked in and is available for a new user. Multiple sessions at different computers use multiple licenses. Each time you start a Citrix session from various devices, a license is checked out until you close that session. At that point, the license is checked back in. For example, a user starts a session from one computer and then starts another from a different computer before closing the first session.

Two licenses are checked out. License Servers do not communicate with each other. If you run multiple License Servers, you might consume more than one license for example, with load balancing. If you are using load balancing, we recommend that the product servers point to the same License Server.

Different editions consume different licenses. Two licenses are consumed, if you use the same client to connect to applications running on an Advanced edition and Premium edition each. Same product, edition, and license model consume single license. If you make multiple connections from a single device to different product servers configured with same edition and license model and pointing to the same License Server.

Only one license is consumed. For license sharing, pass-through connections on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops pass the endpoint client device ID to the product server. If you connect to a single product, edition, and license model with a shared License Server, all connections share a single license.

A user connects from a single device to two product servers that are the same edition but different versions. One or two licenses might be consumed based on the order in which the user makes the connections. If the number of connections exceed the purchased and available standalone concurrent licenses, users are denied access unless the supplemental grace period is enabled.

For more information, see Supplemental grace period. A licensed user requires a unique user ID, such as an Active Directory entry. When a license is assigned to a user, the license allows the user to connect to their desktops and applications using multiple devices. When a user connects to multiple devices, a user license is consumed for the 90 day assignment period.

The license assignment period begins when a connection is made. The period is renewed to the full 90 days during the life of the connection. There are different individual software licenses you can choose:. In addition to all of these licenses, there are some extra add-ons that you can purchase. An upgrade can be purchased if you want to move to a newer version of the software you already use. You can also purchase a student-use add-on for students to utilize at educational institutions.

Users are free to copy, adapt, remix, and redistribute the content. User may not use the content for commercial purposes. Users are free to copy, adapt, remix, and redistribute the content - even commercially.

Users are free to copy and redistribute the content - even commercially. The work may not be redistributed with changes. Users are free to copy and redistribute the content. Public Domain Licenses Creative Commons also provides licenses for those who want to dedicate their work to the Public Domain see the Public Domain LibGuide or for those who want to mark existing Public Domain documents as such.

This essentially dedicates your work to the public domain and means other people will be able to use it however they like.

Use the Public Domain Mark if you have a work that is already a part of the public domain and you want to make that clear to users. Do not use this designation if you aren't totally sure of the copyright status of the item.