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Managing entitlement and license server aliases

Entitlements and servers can be assigned aliases (alternative, easily-recognizable names).

About this task

Assign an alias for an entitlement or a server and add associated information, such as contact data.

To assign an alias to an entitlement ID or a server ID, complete the following procedure.

Before you begin

You must first identify the server or entitlement to which you want to apply an alias.

Procedure

  1. In the Advantest Renewal Portal start page, select the Manage aliases tab.

    The Alias Management page opens.

  2. Depending on the type of alias you want to create, select Entitlement alias or Server alias.

  3. Optional: Click the header of any table column to sort it alphabetically or numerically.

  4. For the chosen entitlement or server, enter an alias and contact information (typically email address).

    Note: The license server alias is also used to identify the license server in the license download file name. So that the license server name is correctly included in the download file name, use only the following characters: 0-9, a-z, A-Z, -, "." (fullstop), "," (comma), and _.


    Any other characters are replaced with _ in the license file name.

    For license servers, you can also enter:

    • Location information to make it easier to find the license server system.

    • License file header information for each license server:

      If you define a license header, this license header is taken for the renewed licenses instead of the standard license header:

      SERVER this_host host

      VENDOR socbu

      USE_SERVER

      To open the Edit License File Header window, click + New. Enter header information as appropriate for your selected license server in the value field and click Update.

      For example:

      SERVER v93t001 dd12fe34aa65 27050

      VENDOR socbu

      USE_SERVER

    Note: The alias information is a global value. Any user who is assigned an entitlement ID is able to change the alias information. Therefore, it is recommended to agree a local procedure for alias handling, for example, only change aliases as a result of significant external changes such as contact information changes. Therefore, the rightmost columns show the user name and date of the last change.

  5. Repeat these steps for all other entitlement IDs and server IDs for which you want to create aliases.
  6. Click Save.

Results

The selected entitlements and servers are now identified by their aliases. The alias name is used on the other Renewal Portal pages as the primary name. The original value is either listed beneath the alias or displayed in a tooltip. The contact info and location field are not displayed on other Renewal Portal pages and is only available for you and your Advantest representative.

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