Check out licenses

Checkout is the process in which the licenses get permanently acquired on a node. You can reserve and checkout licenses for a device. After the checkout process, these licenses do not require the License Server.

If you check out a license with an expiration date, the license gets permanently checked out until the license expires.

You can either check out licenses using the License Manager (from the Device Reservation tab) or using the Checkout utility. For more information about checking out licenses using License Manager and Checkout utility, see Checking Out Licenses using License Manager and Check out licenses using the checkout utility.

Note:
- Ensure that you use one of these methods to check out licenses and not a combination of both.
- In a redundant pair scenario, the checkout and check-in operations are successful only if the servers are in a connected state.
- To be able to checkout licenses, the Server node, Manager node and the relevant Client node should be upgraded to version 3.6 or higher.