Entitlements

While your company can hold several entitlements, acquired with different purchases, only a subset of those entitlements may be assigned to your user account. To see your assigned entitlements, sign in to your user account at the Advantest Renewal Portal and click the Assign Entitlements link.

An entitlement assigned to you can also be co-assigned to other user accounts, for example, to a general company user account. A hover text (see below) displays the name of all additional user accounts which have that entitlement co-assigned. If an entitlement is assigned to more than one user account, other users can also view and renew the licenses of that entitlement.

Note: If your company has several users managing entitlements, for example, for different sites, you must make a strategic decision on the internal ownership of entitlements.

To avoid later conflicts, the internal ownership for the entitlements must be clear before starting to assign entitlement certificates.

When the ownership changes, due to system movement or other reasons, make sure the change is also reflected in the entitlement assignment on the renewal portal.

The entitlement ID is the key to all assignments and license renewal activities. Entitlement IDs are case sensitive. To assign an entitlement to your user account, you must be able to identify the entitlement that you want to assign, either from the ID or the alias. The first part of the entitlement ID (before _OID_), which is typically the Advantest order number, is usually sufficient to identify and select an entitlement and move it to the "My assigned entitlements" table.

Example

The Assign entitlement page is divided into two lists of entitlements.

The entitlements listed in the table on the right have been purchased by your legal entity.

You can use these lists to:

The Assign entitlements page also provides additional information about the entitlements:

- The entitlement has activatable items.

- The entitlement does not have any activatable item. These entitlements do not need to be renewed.

- The entitlement is assigned to other users. A tooltip lists all user names.

- The entitlement does not belong to any of your assigned organizations (legal entities).

- The entitlement is not assigned to any customer. Typically all entitlements should be assigned to a customer.

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Assigning an entitlement

When an entitlement is assigned to your user account, you get the rights of that entitlement, with all its licenses.

About this task

Note: The main prerequisite for all renewal activities is that you have assigned the appropriate entitlement IDs to your user account.

Entitlements are identified using entitlement IDs. You find the entitlement ID in the upper-right corner of the entitlement certificate that accompanies each purchase.

CAUTION: The entitlement ID is the security key to your licenses. Do not make the entitlement ID public. If other users have the entitlement ID, they can assign it to their account and assume ownership of the license.

To assign an entitlement to your user account, complete the following procedure.

Before you begin

• Make sure that you know which entitlement ID you want to assign to yourself.
• Sign in to the Advantest License Renewal Portal.

  Note: Entitlement IDs are case sensitive.

Procedure

1. In the Advantest Renewal Portal start page, select the Assign entitlements tab.

   The Assign Entitlement page opens.

2. From the Available entitlements list, select the entitlements that you want to assign to yourself.

   You can also use the Select all and Unselect all buttons to simplify selection.

3. Click Assign.

   The list on the left shows those entitlements you assigned to your user account. The list also shows whether an entitlement is assigned to you only, or to others as well. In this case the  icon is displayed. Hover text displays the names of the other users.

Results

The selected entitlements are now assigned to your user account and appear in the list on the left.

If you have the complete entitlement ID, you can assign an entitlement that belongs to another legal entity, for example, licenses for systems leased from a leasing company, to your user account using the Add new entitlement ID button. This entitlement appears in the Assigned Entitlements list on the left, but not in the list on the right.

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Removing an entitlement assignment

When you remove an entitlement assignment, it is no longer assigned to your user account. You will not be able to retrieve or renew the licenses of this entitlement, or view its renewal status.

About this task

You may need to do this if somebody else has since been assigned as the entitlement owner, for example, when a system is moved to another site.

To unassign an entitlement from your user account, complete the following procedure.

Before you begin

Before you remove an entitlement ID, make sure you do not need to access the entitlement in the future.

Procedure

1. In the Advantest Renewal Portal start page, select the Assign entitlements tab.

   The Assign Entitlement page opens.

2. From the My assigned entitlements list, select the entitlements that you want to unassign from your account.

   You can also use the Select all and Unselect all buttons to simplify selection.

3. Click Unassign.

Results

The specified entitlements are no longer assigned to your user account and removed from the list on the left.