Allocate licenses at a system level

There are four types of licenses in Contrast. On-premises customers require a license to install and upgrade Contrast. Both hosted and on-premises customers require specific licenses for Assess (application licenses), Protect (server licenses) and OSS (library licenses).

For on-premises customers, a SuperAdmin, ServerAdmin or System Administrator can allocate Assess and Protect licenses to a particular organization. (For hosted customers this is handled by Contrast Security.)

Organization Administrators and Application Administrators can then license servers and applications where they have appropriate permissions.

To allocate licenses at a system level:

  1. Select SuperAdmin in the user menu.

  2. With Organizations selected in the header, you will see a list of organizations. The Licenses column shows the total number of Assess and Protect licenses available for each organization (followed by the number of unused licenses in parentheses).

    If licenses are nearing expiration, you will see a red warning icon there. Hover over the icon to see the number of licenses expiring. Click the link to see which applications or servers that are in danger of expiration.

  3. At the end of each organization row, in the last column on the right, select the triangle, then select License summary in the drop-down menu to see an overview of how many Assess and Protect licenses are available for each organization.

  4. You can either select Allocate more licenses there, or from the previous triangle menu, select Allocate licenses.

  5. In the window that appears, enter the number of Protect and Assess licenses you'd like to make available to this organization, along with an expiration date for each. (The total number available is shown along with the predetermined expiration dates for the licenses.)

Additionally users with the same permissions can further manage licenses under system settings:

  1. Select Licensing in the left navigation.

  2. Here you can see the number of:

    • Available and used Assess (application) licenses, as well as how many applications are unlicensed

    • Available and used Protect (server) licenses as well as how many servers are unlicensed.

    You can also see a list of applications and servers nearing expiration.

    You also have the option to automatically apply licenses to new applications or server. Turn the toggle on (green) and you can select whether this applies to all servers/applications or only new ones.

    Note

    SuperAdmins, ServerAdmins and System Administrators are also given the option to automatically apply licenses when adding an organization.

  3. In the top right, you can select the box to allow Organization Administrators to override these settings (this defaults to enabled).

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