WebConfig - Add or Edit a Group

User Name

The unique user name a group is known by. When an Enterprise Architect client connects to the Floating License Server, it is this value that must be entered as the 'User Name'.

Description

A meaningful description of the group.

Password

The password for the group. Along with the 'User Name', the password must be entered by Enterprise Architect clients in order to obtain a floating licence.

From version 4.2 all groups that are updated will see the password saved to the configuration file as an encrypted value, therefore it is no longer possible to simply view the underlying configuration file to determine a group's password.

Is Admin

When this flag is checked it indicates that the current group is only to be used for administering the Floating License configuration.

Note:  For most of the fields below 'Is Admin' will be disabled once the flag is checked; for example, 'Activation', 'Active Directory Groups'.

Active Between

These two date fields define the period of time for which the current group is active.  Once a group is inactive, users will not be able to connect using this account.

Previously it was possible to define a group that was not restricted to a period of time; however, with the use of the configuration client the same is achieved by defining the end date well into the future.  An empty start date will be shown as '2010-01-01', while an empty end date will be '2050-12-31'.

Activation Code

When Enterprise Architect is first installed it will prompt the user for an 'Activation Code' that was supplied with the original purchase; this is a simple four-letter code to confirm the user's right to use that version of Enterprise Architect.  By assigning the provided Activation code in this field all Enterprise Architect users will derive the Activation Code along with their floating license from the Floating License Server, thereby removing the need for each client machine to be updated whenever new licenses are purchased.

Note:  The ability for Enterprise Architect to obtain an Activation Code from the Floating License Server was added in Enterprise Architect v15.2 in combination with  Pro Cloud Server v4.2, therefore earlier versions are not able to take advantage of this feature.

Active Directory Groups

This field is used to associate one or more Active Directory groups to the current group. Each Active Directory group must be specified by its fully qualified name. If you want to define multiple Active Directory groups, simply separate the names by commas; i.e. a CSV of fully qualified Active Directory group names. 

"WinNT://MYDOMAIN/Sparx Users,WinNT://MYDOMAIN/EA Users,WinNT://CUSTOMERDOMAIN/Sparx Users"

License Entitlements

Displays a list of License Entitlements for the current group. A License Entitlement consists of a Product, License Type and Limit. License Entitlements are uniquely identified by a combination of Product and License Type, which means a Group can be defined with both a Full and Academic license type for a single product.

Click on the <Add> link to add a new entitlement to the list.

Click on the Edit Action button to edit an existing entitlement / row.

Click on  the Delete Action button to delete an existing entitlement / row.

See the WebConfig - Group Entitlements Help topic for more information.