Types
of UFT(QTP) license
There are two main types of UFT
licenses -
- Seat License:
This license is tied to the computer on which it is installed. The trial
or a demo license of UFT is a seat license which has a validity of 30
days. You don’t require any keys for the trial license.
- Concurrent License:
This is also known as floating license. This license type requires a
concurrent license server to be installed in your office/local network.
With concurrent license, a pool of licenses are assigned to the concurrent
license server. Anybody in a local network can connect to this pool as
long as at least a single license is available. For example – Let’s say
your company has purchased 50 concurrent licenses of UFT. All these 50
licenses would be assigned to the license server. Now at any point of
time, maximum 50 people in the local network of your company can work on
UFT.
- Commuter License: This can be said as a special type of concurrent
license which can be used when you don’t have access to the license
server. In this case, you checkout a license from the concurrent license
server for ‘n’ days where n <= 180. A use case for concurrent license
can be – say you need to travel on work where you can’t connect to your
company’s concurrent license server. In that case, you can check out a
license from the server before you leave, go about your work and check-in
back the license to the pool. The duration during which the licensed is
checked out, it will behave like a seat license on your machine and the
number of licenses on the license server will be reduced by one.
