Unretire Licensing

[Anthony Asselta]

I'd love to be able to retire a device and then unretire it at a later time. My reasoning for this is we often have a device that is lost or broken with a registered client. Some times it is not a device we are willing to repair immediately so it gets retired so we can use the license on another device. Later we will repair the old device and when a new one is broken we will cycle in the refurbished unit. At this time we can't do this without purging the licensing database on the connect server.

 

[Dan Peluso]

The concept of retiring is intended to be a permanent removal of that device from the list. With active support agreements, we do offer options to swap devices in the event of a hardware failure or similar though.

 

[Anthony Asselta]

That's fair. We swap devices a lot due to our seasonal nature. We'd be more likely to have spare licenses on hand to device swap and write new programs if we could revert a retired license even if there was a limit on how many times you could do it in a period of time so as not to abuse it.

 

[Robert Petricek]

Sound good!