X-Series Signal Analyzers Getting Started and Troubleshooting Guide 45
Instrument Operating System
Keysight X-Series Analyzer Licensing Options
Network Licenses
Network licenses are available over the customer’s network from a server the
customer configures. Network licenses are identified in the product structure
by an "N" in the second character and either a "P" or an "L" in the third
character, indicating a term of either Perpetual or 1 year (12 months),
respectively.
Example: N9068EM0E-1NP
The server has a count for each license and will only allow instruments to
“check-out” a license up to that count. Once the count is reached for a specific
license, further check-outs fail until one of the licenses is checked back in to
the server. Therefore, it is possible for an instrument to have different features
available to it based on what licenses are available on the server when it tries
to get the licenses.
Setting up network licenses is done via the Keysight Floating License Manager.
Refer to the Installation Guide that can be downloaded from this web page.
Application license
Application licenses (like N9077EM0E-1NP) are automatically checked out
when entering the mode that uses them, and they are automatically
checked-in when leaving that mode. Because the server may have already
checked out the last license for the application to another instrument, there is
a possibility that a mode switch will fail because a required license could not
be checked out from the server. If the server has a limited number of licenses
compared to the number of users desiring to use that license, this may mean
that switching from mode A to mode B then back to mode A may fail when
returning to mode A because another instrument checked out the last
available license while the user was in mode B. Also, for modes with multiple
licenses for different features (like Multi-Standard Radio), the features
available may also change when switching out of the mode and back into it.
USB Portable Licenses
The USB Portable license is implemented with a physical dongle that is a USB
device like a USB thumb drive. It has a Host ID fixed in the dongle hardware. It
does not contain any writable data and so is acceptable to high security A/D
customers. Transporting licenses from one instrument to another just requires
moving the dongle and license files to the desired instrument. The license files
can be installed on many instruments, but they will only be valid on the one
instrument that has the dongle.
USB Portable licenses are identified in the product structure by an "U" in the
second character and either a "P" or an "L" in the third character, indicating a
term of either Perpetual or 1 year (12 months), respectively.
Example: N9068EM0E-1UP
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