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Manage secondary use rights

Some software suppliers offer licensing features for "Home PC – Work PC", "Desktop – Laptop", or "Desktop - Desktop", also referred to as Secondary use rights. With this type of feature, one single license covers two installations of the same application on two separate computers, for instance, one desktop and one laptop.

To manage this feature from a compliance perspective, secondary use rights must be enabled for the application and a connection must be established between the two sibling computers in Snow License Manager. Sibling computers can be specified either manually or by using an automated function that establishes connections based on identified primary users of computers within the same organization. For automated handling of sibling computers, contact Flexera for implementation in your environment.

Snow License Manager also supports Secondary use rights for TS environments, with locally installed software on rich clients.

Activate secondary use rights​

  1. Navigate to the application.

  2. On the context menu, click Edit application.

  3. On the License settings tab, select the Enable secondary use rights check box.

  4. Click Save.

Manually specify a sibling computer​

  1. Navigate to the primary computer (desktop, work PC).

  2. On the context menu, click Edit computer.

  3. On the General tab, click the Select host icon SearchIcon2 icon.

    The Search for computer dialog box appears.

  4. Type a search criterion to find the sibling computer (laptop, home PC), and then click Search. A list of computers that match the search criterion is displayed.

  5. Select the sibling computer, and then click OK.

  6. Click Save.