Tektronix provides a variety of licenses depending on the product. The product license administration is through Tektronix Asset Management System (TekAMS). TekAMS has an easy to use web based interface that provides:
- Inventory of all the licenses in the company account
- Ability to Check-out a License
- Ability to Check-in a License
- Inventory of Licenses Checked out by a particular user
- Inventory of all Licenses Checked out
TekAMS works like a library - a library of your company's software licenses.
- The company buys a software license. The person identified on the Tektronix Order becomes a "License Key Manager"
- That license becomes part of the company license inventory.
- A License Key Manager can invite other users to use the company license inventory. They can create other License Key Managers, or they can invite a "License Key User" who only has the ability to use the licenses available.
- When a user wants to use a license, they will "checkout" that license to the instrument.
- Some licenses can be installed on Tek manufactured equipment, or PC/Table devices running Tek software.
- During the check out process, you will need a combination of the Model name, Serial Number, and Host ID of the instrument.
- If the license you are checking out is of a "Floating" variety, you will be asked to specify the length of the check out. This can be between 4 hours, and 4 years.
- If the license is a "Node Locked" variety, the checkout will be forever and you are not asked for the duration.
- Download the license file and install it on your device.
- If the license is a "Floating" license, when you are done using the license, use the instrument software to generate an "exit key". This is a file that tells us you have removed the license from the device.
- You must then check in the license by uploading that "exit key".
- Once checked in, the license now becomes available for someone else to check out.
