Assigning Licenses

Assigning a license to the TARGET can be done through the Ground Labs Services Portal. You cannot scan a TARGET if it does not have a license assigned.

Licenses can also be automatically assigned through online authentication if:

There are available licenses available for the project.
You have a Ground Labs Services Portal username and password
Or you have a SCAN TOKEN.

See Online Authentication for more information.

License assignment to a TARGET is permanent. You will not be able re-assign your licenses once they have been assigned to a TARGET. See our Ground Labs EULA for more information.

Assigning a License Through the Ground Labs Services Portal

To assign a license to a TARGET:

On to the Ground Labs Services Portal, go to the Licenses Available section to see a summary of the licenses that are associated with your account.
At Licenses Available, click manually assign to display the Targets included in license dialog.
In the Targets included in license dialog, click Add a new target to assign a license to a new TARGET.
Enter the hostname and/or MAC address of the TARGET.
Click Download License to confirm license assignment.

To find the hostname or MAC address of your host, see Getting Host Name and MAC Address.

Make sure that the hostname and/or MAC address of the TARGET that you’re assigning a license to is correct; TARGET assignment is permanent.

Offline Licenses

Downloading a license will put an OFFLINE LICENSE FILE (*.li2) in your downloads folder. This license file can be used to authenticate your copy of DATA RECON without an Internet connection.

For more information on using offline licenses, please see Logging into DATA RECON.

Assigning Licenses Through Other Means

You can also assign licenses through the DATA RECON application itself.

To assign a license through the DATA RECON application, you will either need a Ground Labs Services Portal account or a SCAN TOKEN. For details, see Generating and Using Scan Tokens.

Log into the DATA RECON application using your Ground Labs Services Portal account or SCAN TOKEN.

When you attempt to scan an unlicensed TARGET, DATA RECON will prompt you to assign an available license to that TARGET.

For more information on assigning licenses through other means, see Logging into DATA RECON.

When attempting to scan an unlicensed TARGET while logged in with a SCAN TOKEN, DATA RECON will only prompt you to license the TARGET if your SCAN TOKEN is associated with unassigned licenses.

If all licenses associated with your SCAN TOKEN have been assigned, then DATA RECON will return an “Insufficient available licenses” error and not allow you to assign additional licenses.