# License Portal

The Advantest License portal combines all license-related management functionality into one tool.

<span>To access the Advantest License Portal, sign in under: </span>[https://license.advantest.com/](https://license.advantest.com/).

The portal is divided into the following main areas for both FLEXlm technologies - FlexNet Publisher (FNP) and FlexNet Embedded (FNE):

- Special licenses requests
- License management (FNE server setup, License activation, FNE license re-hosting, License overview)
- License Renewal (for FNP licenses)
- **Optional:** Cloud Server Status for Advantest Cloud License Server monitoring (ACLS)

<span>If you want to switch between areas and all tabs are not visible, click </span>**Portal Home**.

***Note: To access licenses in the Advantest License Portal, users must be assigned to an organization. This enables the users to access all licenses of the associated organization. The organization hierarchy includes a Master level to enable the grouping of regional organizations to a higher level world wide master organization. Users can only belong to one master organization.***

# Signing in to the License Portal

<main id="bkmrk-signing-in-to-the-li"><article>You must be signed in to the Advantest License Portal to access license portal functionality. An associated account is necessary.

<div><section>## Before you begin

You must know your Advantest customer credentials, which are based on your email address.

</section></div></article></main><p class="callout info">**Password reset** is possible on the general Advantest License Portal Login page.  
All entries in the login screens are **case sensitive**.  
**Login credentials** are the **same** as for the myAdvantest login.</p>

<main id="bkmrk-procedure-sign-in-to"><article><section>## Procedure

1. Sign in to the Advantest License Portal by opening the following URL in a Web browser (Edge, Chrome or Firefox): [https://license.advantest.com](https://license.advantest.com)
    
    [![image.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/EZ8image.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/EZ8image.png)
2. Type your customer credentials and click **<span class="uicontrol">Login</span>**. For registered customers, **<span class="wintitle">Username</span>** requires the email address provided during registration. The Licensing page opens.

</section></article></main><p class="callout info">**Note**: You require a registered account to be able to sign in. Alternatively, click **<span class="uicontrol">Register</span>** and complete the registration process with myAdvantest username a valid entitlement ID. If registration fails, contact your Advantest representative providing your myAdvantest username (do not provide your password), and the error message you received during signing on.</p>

[![2.jpg](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/tmy2-jpg.jpeg)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/tmy2-jpg.jpeg)

<main id="bkmrk-results-this-opens-t"><article><section class="section">## Results

This opens the Advantest License Portal page, giving access to:

- Special Licenses (Advantest employee only)
- License Management
- FNP License Renewal
- **Optional:** Cloud Server Status
- Portal News

</section><section class="section">## What to do next

To sign out after you have completed your tasks, click <span class="uicontrol">Log Out</span> in the upper-right corner.

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# Special License portal

<div id="bkmrk-" style="display:none;height:100%;width:100%;">  
</div><main id="bkmrk-the-advantest-specia"><article>The Advantest Special License sub-portal, accessed from the Advantest License portal, is your access point for requesting emergency licenses. You can obtain emergency application software licenses or hardware feature licenses to solve a manufacturing problem caused by a failed or otherwise inoperable or inaccessible license server.

<div><div class="p">To access the Advantest Special License feature, you must sign on with your Advantest customer credentials.</div></div></article></main><div class="p" id="bkmrk--1"></div><p class="callout info">Note: Emergency licenses are made available for emergency circumstances and are valid for 10 days only, providing you with time to restore operation to your original license server or to rehost your full licenses.</p>

<div class="note" id="bkmrk--2"></div><main id="bkmrk-when-to-request-emer"><article><div><section class="section">## When to request emergency licenses

Emergency licenses are required and are provided in the following cases:

- The license server suffers a serious malfunction (for example, motherboard or hard disk drive failure). See also [Installing emergency licenses after failure and replacement of the license server](http://lhc.advantest.com/books/emergency-licenses/page/installing-emergency-licenses-after-failure-and-replacement-of-the-license-server "If your license server is not operational and must be temporarily replaced, you must install an alternative license server and install the emergency licenses on this temporary license server."). *In the case of a server that has been catastrophically damaged, you will also have to rehost your original licenses*. See [Re-hosting FlexNet Embedded licenses](http://lhc.advantest.com/books/flexnet-embedded-licensing/page/re-hosting-flexnet-embedded-licenses "It is possible to move licenses between FlexNet Embedded license servers."). *Rehosting can take several days during which time emergency licenses can be used to allow your testers to continue running*.
- Your network is not accessible. See also [Installing emergency licenses for license servers unavailable due to network problems](http://lhc.advantest.com/books/emergency-licenses/page/installing-emergency-licenses-for-license-servers-unavailable-due-to-network-problems "If your network is not reachable, you must install a local license server and emergency license on each of your test system controllers (workstations).").

</section><section class="section">## What you should do before requesting emergency licenses

When applying for emergency licenses, you should be aware of the following:

- Notify your Advantest sales representative as soon as possible, preferably by email, before you apply for a license.
- Take all reasonable steps to restore operation to your original license server or rehost your licenses.

</section><section class="section">## What you should know when requesting emergency licenses

To receive an emergency license, you must provide the following information:

- Valid user account to sign in to the Advantest Special License portal.
- Host ID of the failing/affected license server.
- Host ID and hostname of the replacement license server.

</section></div><nav>## Related information

<div class="ri"><div>[Signing in to the License Portal](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/license-portal/page/signing-in-to-the-license-portal "You must be signed in to the Advantest License Portal to access license portal functionality. An associated account is necessary.")</div><div>[Requesting emergency licenses](http://lhc.advantest.com/books/emergency-licenses/page/requesting-emergency-licenses "Requesting emergency licenses")</div></div></nav></article></main><footer id="bkmrk--3"><div class="fo"><div class="-share"><div class="-sharem">  
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# License Management portal

To access the Advantest License Portal, sign on under: [https://license.advantest.com/](https://license.advantest.com/).

[![3.jpg](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/3-jpg.jpeg)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/3-jpg.jpeg)

The License Management sub-portal contains the following areas for both FNE and FNP licensing:

- **Activating licenses** to a license server
- **Downloading license** containers and files
- **License overview**

The following extra features are available for FNE licensing:

- **Registering** new FNE servers - and uploading the request file
- **Re-hosting** FNE licenses

[![4.jpg](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/4-jpg.jpeg)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/4-jpg.jpeg)

## Related information

- [Activating licenses](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/activating-licenses/page/activating-licenses "Activating licenses")
- [Rehosting FlexNet Embedded licenses](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/flexnet-embedded-licensing/page/rehosting-flexnet-embedded-licenses "Rehosting FlexNet Embedded licenses")

# FNP License Renewal portal

The Advantest Renewal Portal page provides you an overview of the high-level tasks that you must complete to renew your FNP licenses.

To access the Advantest License portal, sign on under: [https://license.advantest.com/](https://license.advantest.com/).

There are three main steps:

<div id="bkmrk-assigning-entitlemen">- **Assigning entitlements to your account** so that you can renew the associated FNP licenses
- **Renewing** the FNP **licenses** for which you are responsible
- **Download** the renewed FNP licenses

</div>The License Renewal Dashboard flow chart includes shortcut links to these main pages. [![5.jpg](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/5-jpg.jpeg)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/5-jpg.jpeg)

For detailed information on assigning entitlements, renewing licenses, and downloading renewed licenses, see [FNP License Renewal](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/fnp-license-renewal "Advantest licenses are purchased on a perpetual basis. However, you must physically renew your FlexNet (FNP) license keys on an annual basis using the web-based Advantest License Renewal Portal. All FNP perpetual licenses expire on 31st March the following year.").

<nav id="bkmrk-related-information-">## Related information

<div class="ri">- [Entitlements](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/fnp-license-renewal/page/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.")
- [Renewing your licenses](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/fnp-license-renewal/page/renewing-your-licenses "Renewing your licenses enables to keep using them.")
- [Downloading licenses](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/fnp-license-renewal/page/downloading-licenses "You must download the licenses that you have renewed and install them on your license server.")
- [Viewing license information and reporting](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/fnp-license-renewal/page/viewing-license-information-and-reporting "The Overview and Reports page helps you to get an overview about the status of your product licenses and entitlements that are assigned to your user account. The following preconfigured reports are included:")
- [Managing entitlement and license server aliases](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/fnp-license-renewal/page/managing-entitlement-and-license-server-aliases "Entitlements and servers can be assigned aliases (alternative, easily-recognizable names).")
- [Downloading the data for license comparison](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/fnp-license-renewal/page/downloading-the-data-for-license-comparison "The License Renewal Comparison Tool supports you in the annual license renewal process by providing you with two summary CSV files (Renewed.csv and To-Be-Renewed.csv) that list the already renewed licenses and the still-to-be-renewed licenses. The two files helps you maintain and overview of the current status of the Advantest License Renewal Portal's records.")

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# License Portal reference

For license activation, license overview, FNE license rehosting, the license data is presented in a table. This topic describes the column titles, icons and action controls.

<section class="section" id="bkmrk-column-titles-and-ic">## Column Titles and icons

<table class="frame-all" style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-width:0.2px;"><colgroup><col style="width:13.944%;"></col><col style="width:86.056%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><th class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" id="bkmrk-titles" style="border-width:0.2px;">Titles</th><th class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" id="bkmrk-" style="border-width:0.2px;"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Product</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Entitlements with features and S&amp;S licenses. Demo licenses are associated with a tester. Manually enter the system serial number.

</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Total</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Total number of available licenses for the associated product.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Already activated</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Number of activated licenses from the total available for the associated product.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Remaining</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Number of licenses available for activation from the total available for the associated product.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Activate</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Enter the number (count) of licenses that you want to activate from the total available for the associated product.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Serial Number</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">System serial number automatically entered from the associated entitlement ID. One-time SmarTest update licenses require manual entry of the serial number and selection of the software version.

Demo licenses are associated with a tester. Manually enter the system serial number.

</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">SW Version</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">SmarTest software version with which the license is associated.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Start Date</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Date from which the license is active.

Click on the calendar icon and select a date from the calendar displayed: [![3.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/VpC3-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/VpC3-png.png)

<p class="callout info">Note: Demo licenses are time-limited. A start date must be selected. If you are using 30 day licenses sequentially, enter count 1 and specify a start date. After generating the first license, start the simple activation again and re-enter count 1 and the next start date.</p>

</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Expiration Date</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Date when the license expires (at 24:00 midnight).

For example, if the expiration date is 2024-06-30, the license expires at midnight (end of the day) on 30-June-2024.

</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Organization</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Customer name. As some customers have several sites, a customer can have several organization names.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Org ID</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">Unique (numeric) identifier of the organization name of the customer.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Entitlement</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">A unique identifier for a specific entitlement. Available on the entitlement certificate and is required for license activities such as activating licenses.

</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">License Server</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">License server to which the license is activated or shall be activated.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Pending Removal</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">*For FNE rehosting only:* If a number is displayed in this field, the removal of licenses from the original FNE license server has not yet been confirmed with the Licensing Back-Office. As long as a pending removal value is displayed, these licenses cannot be activated to another FNE license server.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;"><span class="uicontrol">Re-host count</span></td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">*For FNE rehosting only:* Enter the number (count) of licenses that you want to remove from the FNE license server to activate the licenses to another FNE license server.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">[![348499.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/348499-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/348499-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">FNE license server.</td></tr><tr><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">[![2.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/vqU2-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/vqU2-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;">FNP license server.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</section><section class="section" id="bkmrk-license-management-p">## License Management portal controls

<table class="frame-all" style="height:314.359px;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-width:0.2px;"><colgroup><col style="width:21.6925%;"></col><col style="width:78.3075%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr style="height:29.7969px;"><th class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" id="bkmrk-control" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">Control</th><th class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" id="bkmrk-description" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="height:29.7969px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">Column sort</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">Click on a column header to sort the table entries in accordance with the column values.

</td></tr><tr style="height:29.7969px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">Filter</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">Field used to filter the Product list by text string.</td></tr><tr style="height:39.2031px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:39.2031px;">[![4.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/HK94-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/HK94-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:39.2031px;">Click to remove search text from the filter field.</td></tr><tr style="height:29.7969px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">[![5.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/OMy5-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/OMy5-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:29.7969px;">Click to display or hide optional columns.</td></tr><tr style="height:36.3906px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1 align-center" style="border-width:0.2px;height:36.3906px;">[![6.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/c0K6-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/c0K6-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:36.3906px;">SmarTest software version number with which the license is associated.</td></tr><tr style="height:40.1562px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1 align-center" style="border-width:0.2px;height:40.1562px;">[![7.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/5xj7-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/5xj7-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:40.1562px;">Enters the remaining count to the Activate field of the associated license.</td></tr><tr style="height:42.7344px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:42.7344px;">[![8.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/0yW8-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/0yW8-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:42.7344px;">Enters the remaining count of all license to the Activate field.</td></tr><tr style="height:36.6875px;"><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1 align-center" style="border-width:0.2px;height:36.6875px;">[![3.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/VpC3-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/VpC3-png.png)</td><td class="colsep-1 rowsep-1" style="border-width:0.2px;height:36.6875px;">Select a license period start date from the calendar.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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