{"id":159698,"date":"2022-09-26T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/discovery-licensing-options\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T06:32:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:32:51","slug":"discovery-licensing-options","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/discovery-licensing-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Licensing Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery Products support 2 types of licensing &#8211; Subscription based and Enterprise (floating) based<\/p>\n<h3  id=\"SUBSCRIPTION-LICENSE\">Subscription license:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Named user license, not floating<\/li>\n<li>Each license is assigned to a single user and cannot be shared<\/li>\n<li>Each license can be activated on 2 machines<\/li>\n<li>Requires access to a cloud-based license server<\/li>\n<li>Please refer to\u00a0<a href=\"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/named-user-subscription-administration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">this post<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0how to manage, invite and assign subscriptions to users<\/li>\n<li>Does not require the Ansys License Manager to be installed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3  id=\"ENTERPRISE-LICENSE\">Enterprise license:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Traditional ANSYS floating license<\/li>\n<li>Each license can be used by multiple users (not simultaneously)<\/li>\n<li>Uses same license file &amp; license manager as ANSYS flagship products<\/li>\n<li>Traditional paid-up and lease options available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-159698","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-general-faq","topic-tag-installation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["09-13-2022  20:20:14"],"_bbp_forum_id":["159546"],"_btv_view_count":["4497"],"family":["Discovery Products"],"application_name":["installation"],"product_version":["2021R2"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}